Name(s) SATYA NARAYAN GOENKA Date of Birth January 30, 1924 - Born in Burma (now Myanmar) Date of Death September 29, 2013 Identity Burmese-Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation Other Events & Developments He followed the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, under whom he trained for 14 years. In 1969, he shifted to India and started teaching meditation, and started a meditation centre at Igatpuri, near Nashik in 1976. In time, he became an influential non-sectarian teacher of the Vipassana movement and a pioneer of Vipassana meditation in India. He trained more than 1300 assistant teachers and each year more than 120,000 people attended Goenka-led Vipassana courses. The technique which S. N. Goenka taught represents a tradition that is traced back to the Buddha.

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