Meditation in Southeast Asia - Insight Meditation Center

1. Thailand.............................................................................................................................................. 6
1.1 Wat Suan Mokkh ......................................................................................................................... 7
1.2 Dipabhavan.................................................................................................................................. 9
1.3 Wat Kow Tahm International Meditation Center ........................................................................ 10
1.4 Wat Pah Nanachat (International Forest Monastery)................................................................. 12
1.5 Wat Ram Poeng ........................................................................................................................ 16
1.6 Wat Phra Dhatu Sri Chomtong Voravihara (pronounce: Wat Prah That) .................................. 18
1.7 Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep............................................................................................................ 20
1.8 Santisukh Tudongsathaan (Wat Pa Pae) .................................................................................. 22
1.9 Wat Pah Baan Taad................................................................................................................... 24
1.10 Wat Sanghathan Meditation Center (on the suburb of Bangkok) ............................................ 27
1.11 Thailand Vipassana Centre Dhamma Abha............................................................................. 29
1.12 Samnak Songh Boonyawat ..................................................................................................... 31
1.13 Wat Marp Jun (also Wat Mab Chan or Wat Subhaddabanpot)................................................. 33
1.14 Samnak Song Tham Krabok (drug withdrawal) ....................................................................... 36
2. Myanmar (Burma)............................................................................................................................. 37
2.1 Panditarama Meditation Centre (Shwe Taung Gon Sasana Yeiktha)......................................... 39
2.2 Hse Main Gon Forest Meditation Center ................................................................................... 41
2.3 Pa-Auk Forest Meditation Center (branch near Yangon) .......................................................... 44
2.4 Pa-Auk Forest Monastery .......................................................................................................... 47
2.5 Dhamma Joti Vipassana Centre ................................................................................................ 49
2.6 Mahasi Sasana Yeiktha Meditation Centre ............................................................................... 51
2.7 Chanmyay Yeiktha Meditation Centre, Yangon ......................................................................... 53
2.8 Chanmyay Yeiktha Meditation Centre, Hmawbi ........................................................................ 56
2.9 Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre........................................................................................ 58
2.10 Saddhamma Ransi Meditation Centre ..................................................................................... 61
2.11 The-Pyu Tawya Vipassana Meditation Centre & Monastery.................................................... 62
2.12 Sîtagu International Buddhist Academy (Study center) ........................................................... 63
2.13 Dhammavijjalaya Centre for Buddhist Studies (Study center).................................................. 65
3. Sri Lanka.......................................................................................................................................... 67
3.1 Lewella Meditation Centre.......................................................................................................... 68
3.2 Dhammakuta.............................................................................................................................. 69
3.3 Lanka Vipassana Centre............................................................................................................ 71
3.4 Island Hermitage (Polgasduwa)................................................................................................. 72
3.5 Vipassana Bhavana Madhyasthana........................................................................................... 73
3.6 University Forest Solitude.......................................................................................................... 74
3.7 Nissarana Vanaya...................................................................................................................... 75
3.8 Meditation Centre Kanduboda ................................................................................................... 76
3.9 Rockhill Hermitage and International Retreat Centre................................................................. 78
4. Nepal................................................................................................................................................ 82
4.1 Nepal Vipassana Centre ........................................................................................................... 83
4.2 Panditarama Lumbini International Vipassana Meditation Centre.............................................. 85
4.3 Rigpe Dorje Institute Pullahari Monastery (Tibetian Tradition)................................................... 87
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