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विपश्यना के नुकसान और साइड इफ़ेक्ट: क्या विपश्यना ख़तरनाक है?
विपश्यना के नुकसान (Vipassana side effects): गहन शिविर में कठिन अनुभवों पर शोध, शरीर का दर्द, किसे पहले डॉक्टर से पूछना चाहिए और शिविर में क्या करें।
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Articles on Vipassana
History, research, the places connected with the Buddha, and practical advice for your first course and after.
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Is Vipassana worth it? Costs, evidence and who it's not for
Is Vipassana worth it? What a 10-day course costs, what studies and participants report, who it may not suit, and other ways to start.
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HistoryResearch
The Tihar Jail Vipassana story: 1,000 prisoners on one course
In April 1994 more than 1,000 Tihar Jail prisoners sat a 10-day Vipassana course with S. N. Goenka. How it came about, what was said and what followed.
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Vipassana for professionals: executive courses and the evidence
Executive courses teach the same 10-day Vipassana with extra talks on work. Where they run, what professionals said, and how thin the evidence is.
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Vipassana for students: courses for children, teens and schools
Children learn Anapana on free 1 to 3-day courses, 15 to 19-year-olds can take a 7-day Vipassana course, and Maharashtra teaches Anapana in schools.
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विपश्यना के फ़ायदे: शोध क्या कहता है (और क्या नहीं)
शोध में 10 दिन के विपश्यना शिविर के बाद कम तनाव और बेहतर मनःस्थिति दिखी, पर अध्ययन छोटे हैं। क्या साबित है, क्या नहीं, और किसे पहले डॉक्टर से मिलना चाहिए।
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ResearchHealth
Vipassana benefits: what research shows, and what it doesn't
What studies of 10-day courses, prison programmes and long-term meditators found, and why small, self-selected samples limit what they can show.
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HistoryResearch
Vipassana in prisons: from Jaipur and Tihar to Alabama
How 10-day Vipassana courses reached prisons in India, the United States and Nepal, from Jaipur in 1975 to Nakkhu in 2024, and what studies found.
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