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64 relations: Anapanasati, Bessemer, Alabama, British Raj, British rule in Burma, Buddhist ethics, Burmese Indians, Burmese names, Daniel Goleman, Dhamma Joti, Dharma, Doing Time, Doing Vipassana, Global Vipassana Pagoda, Gorai, Government of India, Headquarters of the United Nations, Hindus, HuffPost, Igatpuri, India, Indian nationality law, ISO 15919, Jack Kornfield, Jay Michaelson, Joseph Goldstein (writer), Kiran Bedi, Lion's Roar (magazine), List of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism, Maharashtra, Mandalay, Marwari people, Meditation, Migraine, Mumbai, Myanmar, Myanmar nationality law, Nashik, New York City, Nirvana, Padma Bhushan, Pagoda, Prajñā (Buddhism), Prison contemplative programs, Ram Dass, Republic Day (India), Retreat (spiritual), S. N. Goenka, Samadhi, Samatha-vipassana, Sayagyi U Ba Khin, Seating capacity, ... Expand index (14 more) »
- Buddhist spiritual teachers
- Burmese Buddhists
- Burmese emigrants to India
- Burmese people of Indian descent
- Converts to Buddhism from Hinduism
- Indian Theravada Buddhists
- Indian expatriates in British Burma
- Students of U Ba Khin
Anapanasati
Ānāpānasati (Pali; Sanskrit: ānāpānasmṛti), meaning "mindfulness of breathing" (sati means mindfulness; ānāpāna refers to inhalation and exhalation), is the act of paying attention to the breath.
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Bessemer, Alabama
Bessemer is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States and a southwestern suburb of Birmingham.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
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British rule in Burma
The British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.
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Buddhist ethics
Buddhist ethics are traditionally based on the enlightened perspective of the Buddha.
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Burmese Indians
Burmese Indians are a group of people of Indian origin who live in Myanmar (Burma). S. N. Goenka and Burmese Indians are Burmese people of Indian descent.
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Burmese names
Burmese names lack the serial structure of most Western names.
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Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist.
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Dhamma Joti
Dhamma Joti is one of the first Vipassana meditation centres in Myanmar, founded by S.N Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Kin in accordance with the teaching of Ledi Sayadaw.
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Dharma
Dharma (धर्म) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism), among others.
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 Israeli independent documentary film project by two women filmmakers from Israel: Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel.
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Global Vipassana Pagoda
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.
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Gorai
Gorai (ɡoɾaːi) is a village at Dharavi Bhet, in Mumbai, India.
Government of India
The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.
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Headquarters of the United Nations
The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
HuffPost
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.
Igatpuri
Igatpuri (Pronunciation: iɡət̪puɾiː; formerly known as Egutpoora) is a town and a Hill Station.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian nationality law
Indian nationality law details the conditions by which a person holds Indian nationality.
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ISO 15919
ISO 15919 (Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters) is one of a series of international standards for romanization by the International Organization for Standardization.
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Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield (born 1945) is an American writer and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism.
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Jay Michaelson
Jay Michaelson (born May 5, 1971) is an American writer, journalist, professor, and rabbi.
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Joseph Goldstein (writer)
Joseph Goldstein (born May 20, 1944) is one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, a contemporary author of numerous popular books on Buddhism (see publications below), a resident guiding teacher at IMS, and a leader of retreats worldwide on insight (vipassana) and lovingkindness (metta) meditation.
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Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. S. N. Goenka and Kiran Bedi are 21st-century Indian writers.
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Lion's Roar (magazine)
Lion's Roar (previously Shambhala Sun) is an independent, bimonthly magazine (in print and online) that offers a nonsectarian view of "Buddhism, Culture, Meditation, and Life".
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List of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism
This is a list of notable converts to Buddhism from Hinduism. S. N. Goenka and list of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism are converts to Buddhism from Hinduism.
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
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Mandalay
Mandalay is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon.
Marwari people
The Marwari or Marwadi (Devanagari: मारवाड़ी) are an Indian ethnic group that originate from the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India.
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Meditation
Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself.
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Migraine
Migraine is a genetically influenced complex neurological disorder characterized by episodes of moderate-to-severe headache, most often unilateral and generally associated with nausea and light and sound sensitivity.
Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Myanmar nationality law
The Nationality law of Myanmar currently recognises three categories of citizens, namely citizen, associate citizen and naturalised citizen, according to the 1982 Citizenship Law.
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Nashik
Nashik, Marathi: naːʃik, formerly Nasik) is a city in the northern region of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nirvana
Nirvana (निर्वाण nirvāṇa; Pali: nibbāna; Prakrit: ṇivvāṇa; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lampRichard Gombrich, Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo. Routledge) is a concept in Indian religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism), the extinguishing of the passions which is the ultimate state of soteriological release and the liberation from duḥkha ('suffering') and saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and rebirth.
Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri.
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Pagoda
A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves common to Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia.
Prajñā (Buddhism)
() or is a Buddhist term often translated as "wisdom", "insight", "intelligence", or "understanding".
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Prison contemplative programs
Prison contemplative programs are classes or practices (which includes meditation, yoga, contemplative prayer or similar) that are offered at correctional institutions for inmates and prison staff.
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Ram Dass
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer.
Republic Day (India)
Republic Day is a national holiday in India commemorating the adoption of the Constitution of India, and the country's transition to a republic which came into effect on 26 January 1950.
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Retreat (spiritual)
The meaning of a spiritual retreat can be different for different religious communities.
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S. N. Goenka
Satya Narayana Goenka (ISO 15919: Satynārāyaṇ Goynkā;; 30 January 1924 – 29 September 2013) was an Indian teacher of vipassanā meditation. S. N. Goenka and S. N. Goenka are 20th-century Buddhists, 20th-century Indian writers, 21st-century Buddhists, 21st-century Indian writers, Buddhist spiritual teachers, Burmese Buddhists, Burmese emigrants to India, Burmese people of Indian descent, converts to Buddhism from Hinduism, Indian Buddhists, Indian Theravada Buddhists, Indian expatriates in British Burma, Indian spiritual writers, Marwari people, naturalised citizens of India, people from Mandalay, Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in social work, Social workers from Maharashtra and Students of U Ba Khin.
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Samadhi
Statue of a meditating Shiva, Rishikesh Samādhi (Pali and समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness.
Samatha-vipassana
(Sanskrit: शमथ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and (Pāli; Sanskrit: विपश्यना; Sinhala: විදර්ශනා), literally "special, super, seeing", are two qualities of the mind developed in tandem in Buddhist practice.
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Sayagyi U Ba Khin
Sayagyi U Ba Khin (ဘခင်,; 6 March 1889 – 19 January 1971) was the first Accountant General of the Union of Burma. S. N. Goenka and Sayagyi U Ba Khin are 20th-century Buddhists.
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Seating capacity
Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.
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Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg (born August 5, 1952) is an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice in the West.
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Thích Nhất Hạnh
Thích Nhất Hạnh (Huế dialect:; born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo; 11 October 1926 – 22 January 2022) was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism.
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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
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The Dhamma Brothers
The Dhamma Brothers is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama.
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The Indian Express
The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.
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Tihar Prisons
Tihar Prisons, also called Tihar Jail and Tihar Ashram, is a prison complex in India and one of the largest complex of prisons in India.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review is an independent, nonsectarian Buddhist quarterly that publishes Buddhist teachings, practices, and critique.
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United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.
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United Nations General Assembly Building
The United Nations General Assembly Building is part of the headquarters of the United Nations in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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Vipassana movement
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, which gained widespread popularity since the 1950s, and to its western derivatives which have been popularised since the 1970s, giving rise to the more dhyana-oriented mindfulness movement.
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William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility
William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility is an Alabama Department of Corrections prison for men located in unincorporated Jefferson County, Alabama, near Bessemer.
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World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, think tank, and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari (יובל נח הררי; born 1976) is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and writer.
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14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, also known as Tenzin Gyatso;; born 6 July 1935) is, as the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism.
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See also
Buddhist spiritual teachers
- Anagarika Munindra
- Carlo Zendo Tetsugen Serra
- Dharmarakṣita (9th century)
- Gankhüügiin Pürevbat
- Haemin (monk)
- Jñānagarbha
- Mahasiddhas
- Nisthananda Bajracharya
- S. N. Goenka
- U Nu
- Vajracharya
- Vimalakirti
- Won-gwang
Burmese Buddhists
- Anauk Nanmadaw Ma Mya Lay
- Aung Shwe
- Ba Maw
- Burmese Buddhist titles
- Graham (musician)
- Hlaing Hteik Khaung Tin
- Hsinbyumashin
- Htayanka Princess
- Khin The
- Kyaw Soe Oo
- Kyaymyin Mibaya
- Kyi Maung
- Laungshe Mibaya
- Lay Phyu
- Lim Chin Tsong
- Limban Mibaya
- Limbin Mintha
- Magway Mibaya
- Maung Zarni
- Meiktila Princess
- Naga Daw Oo
- Nang Khin Zay Yar
- Nanmadaw Me Nu
- Oo Zun
- Pin Princess
- Pindale Princess
- Prince Myo Htwe, Prince of Thonze
- Prince Myo Tu, Prince of Mekkhaya
- Prince Phyo, Prince of Mekkhaya
- Prince of Pyinzi
- Pyinzi Supaya
- S. N. Goenka
- Salin Supaya
- Saw Maung
- Seindon Mibaya
- Setkya Dewi
- Shwe Mann
- Soe Win (minister)
- Supayagyi
- Supayalat
- Supayalay
- Taingda Princess
- Tha Myat
- Than Htay
- Tharazein Mibaya
- Thet Mon Myint
- Ye Lwin (musician)
- Yun San
- Zabwedaung Mibaya
Burmese emigrants to India
- Ahalya Chari
- Bhanumati Devi
- Helen (actress)
- Peston Padamji Ginwala
- Richard Bartholomew
- S. N. Goenka
- Saraswathi Rajamani
- Usha Narayanan
- Zainulabedin Gulamhusain Rangoonwala
- Zoramthanga (boxer)
Burmese people of Indian descent
- Ant Gyi
- Bhanu Gupta
- Bhanumati Devi
- Burmese Indians
- David Abel (general)
- H. N. Goshal
- Jamshed Bakht
- Janaki Venkataraman
- Karim Ghani
- Ko Ni
- Kyar Ba Nyein
- Lwin Moe
- Maung Shwe
- Mukerjee (Yebaw Phyu Win)
- Pe Khin
- Peston Padamji Ginwala
- S. N. Goenka
- Saung Oo Hlaing
- Shwe Yoe
- Supriya Devi
- T. S. S. Rajan
- U Razak
- Vanlal Dawla
Converts to Buddhism from Hinduism
- Aśvaghoṣa
- B. C. Kamble
- B. D. Khobragade
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Baburao Bagul
- Babytai Kamble
- Balachandran Chullikkad
- Bauddha Rishi Mahapragya
- Bhaurao Gaikwad
- Dagdu Maruti Pawar
- Gagan Malik
- Gangadhar Pantawane
- Indradevi
- Iyothee Thass
- Jagdish Kashyap
- Jayarajadevi
- Jayavarman VII
- Karuvaki
- Keshav Meshram
- Lalai Singh Yadav
- Laxman Mane
- Lenin Raghuvanshi
- List of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism
- Nagarjun
- Nagarjuna
- Namdeo Dhasal
- Phoolan Devi
- Pracheen Chauhan
- R. S. Gavai
- Radhika Vemula
- Ramratan Janorkar
- S. N. Goenka
- Sanghmitra Maurya
- Sargun Mehta
- Savita Ambedkar
- Shantabai Dhanaji Dani
- Shruti Nagvanshi
- Sone Lal Patel
- Sukhadeo Thorat
- Sunil Babu Pant
- Suresh Bhat
- Swaran Ram Darapuri
- Tenzin Priyadarshi
- Udit Raj
- Upendra Nath Biswas
- Urmila Pawar
- Vitthal Umap
- Yashwant Ambedkar
Indian Theravada Buddhists
- Buddhaghosa
- Dipa Ma
- Jagdish Kashyap
- S. N. Goenka
- Sthiramati
Indian expatriates in British Burma
- Annai Meenambal Shivaraj
- C. P. Ramachandran
- Desmond Whittaker
- Irawati Karve
- Kirtilal Manilal Mehta
- Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar
- Manuel Aaron
- Mirza Ahmad Ispahani
- Mona Chandravati Gupta
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
- Oscar Stanley Dawson
- Padamji Ginwala
- Pessie Madan
- Peston Padamji Ginwala
- Ranganathan Francis
- S. N. Goenka
- U. A. Khader
Students of U Ba Khin
- John Earl Coleman
- Ruth Denison
- S. N. Goenka
References
Also known as S N Goenka, S.N. Goenka, S.N.Goenka, SN Goenka, Satya Narayan Goenka, Vipassana Research Institute.