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Anagarika Munindra

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started teaching Vipassana in India. Munindra joined a 10-day course conducted by Goenka at Bodhgaya. He was very impressed by the technique, as expressed in a letter of appreciation that he wrote to
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whose purpose was the resuscitation of Buddhism in India and the restoration of ancient Buddhist shrines there. Munindra was the superintendent of the
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He spent the last part of his life living at the Vipassana Research Institute's main meditation centre, Dhamma Giri, at the village of
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but since he had already learnt Vipassana from a monk, Sayagyi expressed his inability to teach him Vipassana in the tradition of
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from 1953 to 1957, the first Buddhist to hold this position in modern times. From 1957 to 1966 he lived in
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simply means a practicing Buddhist who leads a nomadic life without attachment in order to focus on the
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Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation
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thoroughly, before returning to India, where he taught vipassana for many years in
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Video of Munindra and Taungpulu Sayadaw from 1976 in Boulder Creek California
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meditation teacher, who taught many notable meditation teachers including
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and had dhamma discussions with him. Subsequently, he wished to learn
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Recording of talk given at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco in 1977
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Thoughts about Munindra from a book edited by Sharon Salzberg
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and descended from Buddhists of India forced east by the
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Finally, his wish was fulfilled a few years later when
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During his stay in Burma he came in close contact with
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