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Sayalay Bhaddamanika portrait

Sayalay Bhadda Manika

Sayalay Bhaddamanika began practicing under Sayadaw U Pandita in Myanmar in 1974 when she was 19. She ordained as a nun in 1999 with Sayadaw U Pandita as her preceptor and began teaching meditation in 2002. Sayalay is currently based in Nepal, residing and teaching at the Panditarama Lubmini Meditation Centre alongside Sayadaw Vivekananda, and […]

Venerable Virañani

Ayya Vīrañāṇi began to practise meditation in 1979. In 2003, after several years working at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, USA, and training in the Thai Forest tradition, she began a period devoted to intensive practice in the Burmese lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw. She took permanent ordination in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita on […]

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Sayādaw U Indaka

Sayādaw U Indaka is the abbot of the Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centres (CMMC) in Yangon and Pyin Oo Lwin. At both these centres, and throughout Myanmar and internationally, Sayādaw teaches the practice of Satipatthana vipassana and metta meditation to both Burmese and foreign meditators. He has also written several Dhamma books, among them: ‘Metta - The Practice […]

Bhikkhu Anālayo

Bhikkhu Anālayo is a German scholar-monk and the author of Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipatthāna, and Excursions into the Thought-World of the Pali Discourses. He is a Core Faculty Member at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and a professor at the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg.

Sayādaw U Vivekananda

Sayādaw U Vivekananda is a senior meditation teacher in the Mahāsī tradition and the abbot of Paṇḍitarama International Meditation Centre in Lumbini, Nepal. He also teaches a busy schedule in North America and Europe.