Yangon (Rangoon)
Yangon (formerly Rangoon) is the largest city of Myanmar (Burma), in the country's south near the Andaman coast. In the twentieth century it became a hub of the modern Burmese vipassanā (insight meditation) revival: the prime minister U Nu invited Mahāsi Sayādaw to lead the meditation centre established there (the Mahāsi Sāsana Yeiktha) in 1947, from which the 'Mahasi method' spread internationally.
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Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 1971
Practical Insight Meditation
- 2016
Manual of Insight
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The Essentials of Buddha-Dhamma in Meditative Practice
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Yangon (Rangoon). Click any to trace the idea across time and place.