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S.N. Goenka

Burmese-Indian lay teacher who carried vipassana in the U Ba Khin lineage to millions of students worldwide.

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S.N. Goenka

Indian-born Burmese businessman who became one of the twentieth century's most widely-taught lay vipassana teachers. Founder of the worldwide network of ten-day vipassana courses in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin.

Portrait of Mahasi Sayadaw, founder of the modern noting method of vipassana

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Vipassana — Insight Meditation

The practice of seeing the three marks of existence — impermanence, suffering, non-self — directly in moment-to-moment experience. The Buddha's central method.

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Theravada

The oldest surviving school of Buddhism — the way of the elders. The tradition that preserved the Pali Canon, the monastic rule, and the path of the arahant across twenty-three centuries from Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia.

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