Dhamma Bodhi

Dhamma Bodhi ('Enlightenment of Dhamma') is the centre at Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha attained enlightenment; its first course was held in 1995. It is on the Gaya-Dobhi Road near IIM Bodhgaya, about 3.5 km from the Mahabodhi Temple and the Bodhi Tree. Gaya airport is about 15 minutes away by taxi and Gaya Junction railway station about 20 km; Patna airport is 112 km from Bodh Gaya. Bihar's first 10-day course in this tradition was held in 1970 at the Samanvaya Ashram beside the Mahabodhi Temple, and for the next few years S. N. Goenka visited Bodh Gaya almost every year; old students bought the first 10 acres of the present site in 1994. The 18-acre rural campus, with fruit trees and vegetable gardens, accommodates about 120 men and 80 women in single and double cottages with attached bathrooms. As of April 2022 it had three Dhamma halls (for 100, 120 and 70 students, the last used for English discourses) and a pagoda of 215 cells. The first long course was held in 2008, and the schedule runs from 10-day to 45-day courses. The centre's site describes a planned long-course centre, Dhamma Sambodhi, on 8 acres adjoining the campus, for 100 students and with a pagoda of 120 cells.

How to apply

Apply online through the centre's page on dhamma.org (in Nepal, start from np.dhamma.org). New students must first complete a 10-day course, and there is no charge.

What is taught here

Donation-funded 10-day courses taught with S. N. Goenka's recorded instructions, in the line of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, at centres in Nepal and worldwide. Read about Goenka (U Ba Khin).