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Dipa Ma. Nani Bala Barua (25 March 1911 – 1 September 1989), better known as Dipa Ma, was an Indian meditation teacher of Theravada Buddhism and was of Barua descent. [ 4] She was a prominent Buddhist master in Asia and also taught in the United States where she influenced the American branch of the Vipassana movement. [ 5]
He went to Burma in 1988 to practice intensive meditation at the famous meditation center Mahasi Yeiktha in Rangoon. [ 6] Bhante Vimalaramsi was a well known meditation teacher [ 7] having taught in Malaysia [ 5] and the United States. He gave retreats in Europe, Asia, SE Asia, and America. [ 6] He was the founder of the American Forest ...
Sri Punyarathana Dhamma School. Sri Punyarathana Dhamma School at Choola Bodhi Viharaya is a free education Buddhist religion center (Sunday School) for children under the age of 18 years. It is situated in the village Haburugala in the Southern part of Sri Lanka. The purpose of the school is to guide students from Haburugala and nearby ...
Etymology. Tipiṭaka ( Pāli ), or Tripiṭaka (Sanskrit: त्रिपिटक), means "Three Baskets". [ 1] It is a compound Pāli word ti or Sanskrit word of tri (त्रि), meaning "three", and piṭaka (पिटक) or piṭa (पिट), meaning "basket". [ 1] The "three baskets" were originally the receptacles of the palm-leaf ...
The Vinaya Piṭaka (English: Basket of Discipline) is the first of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism. The other two parts of the Tripiṭaka are the Sutta Piṭaka and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. Its primary subject matter is the monastic rules of conduct for monks and ...
The Theravāda Abhidhamma is a scholastic systematization of the Theravāda school's understanding of the highest Buddhist teachings ( Abhidhamma ). These teachings are traditionally believed to have been taught by the Buddha, though modern scholars date the texts of the Abhidhamma Piṭaka to the 3rd century BCE.
Anagarika Shri Munindra (1915 – October 14, 2003), also called Munindraji by his disciples, [1] was an Indian Vipassanā meditation teacher, who taught many notable meditation teachers including Dipa Ma, [2] Joseph Goldstein, [2] Sharon Salzberg, [3] and Surya Das. [4]
Huángbò Xīyùn ( simplified Chinese: 黄檗希运; traditional Chinese: 黄檗希運; Wade–Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün; lit. 'Xiyun of Mt. Huangbo ', Japanese: Ōbaku Kiun) (died 850 [ a]) was an influential master of Zen Buddhism during the Tang dynasty. He was part of the Hongzhou school of Chan founded by Mazu . Huángbò was a student of ...