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The Vipassanā movement, also called (in the United States) the Insight Meditation Movement and American Vipassana movement, refers to a branch of modern Burmese Theravāda Buddhism that promotes "bare insight" ( sukha-Vipassana) to attain stream entry and preserve the Buddhist teachings, [1] which gained widespread popularity since the 1950s ...
Vipassanā-ñāṇa. The Vipassanā-ñāṇas ( Pali, Sinhala: Vidarshana-jñāna) or insight knowledges are various stages that a practitioner of Buddhist Vipassanā ("insight", "clear-seeing") meditation is said to pass through on the way to nibbana. [1] This "progress of insight" ( Visuddhiñana-katha) is outlined in various traditional ...
The organisation estimates that as many as 10,000 prisoners, as well as many members of the police and military, have attended the 10-day courses. Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 documentary about the introduction of S. N. Goenka's 10-day Vipassana classes at Tihar Jail in 1993 by then Inspector General of Prisons in New Delhi, Kiran Bedi ...
The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 10: The Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness), and the subsequently created Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Dīgha Nikāya 22: The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness), are two of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism, acting as the foundation for contemporary vipassana ...
Translations ofVipassanā. Samatha ( Sanskrit: शमथ; Chinese: 止; pinyin: zhǐ [note 1] ), "calm," [1] "serenity," [2] "tranquility of awareness," [web 1] and vipassanā ( Pāli; Sanskrit: विपश्यना; Sinhala: විදර්ශනා ), literally "special, super ( vi- ), seeing ( -passanā )", [3] are two qualities of the ...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, commonly called Spirit Rock, is a meditation center [1] in Woodacre, California. It focuses on the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana, or Insight Meditation, tradition. [2] It was founded in 1985 as Insight Meditation West, [3] and is visited by an estimated 40,000 people a year. [4]
The Global Vipassana Pagoda is a Meditation dome hall with a capacity to seat around 8,000 Vipassana meditators (the largest such meditation hall in the world) near Gorai, in the north western part of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The Global Vipassana Pagoda is declared as one of the " One of Seven Wonders of Maharashtra " by Maharashtra Tourism ...
Noble Silence. Noble Silence is a term attributed to the Gautama Buddha, for his reported responses to certain questions about reality. One such instance is when he was asked the fourteen unanswerable questions. In similar situations he often responded to antinomy-based descriptions of reality by saying that both antithetical options presented ...