Dhamma Sindhu

Dhamma Sindhu ('Ocean of Dhamma') is near the village of Bada in Mandvi taluka, Kutch, about 1 km from the Arabian Sea shore; the centre's pages put it 22 to 24 km west of the port town of Mandvi. It was established in 1991: the first course was held on 8 November 1991, and S. N. Goenka conducted a 10-day course here on 7 November 1992. The 35-acre (14-hectare) campus has four Dhamma halls (for 300, 100, 35 and 20 people) and a three-storey pagoda with individual cells (184 by the centre's count; dhamma.org says 188). dhamma.org lists 145 single rooms with attached bath and shared space for 40 more. A separate long-course complex on the west side of the campus, built partly with lime mortar and cow dung, has its own pagoda of 115 cells, a hall for 200 and en-suite rooms. Kutch has railway stations at Bhuj and Gandhidham and airports at Bhuj and Kandla (Gandhidham). From Bhuj, 60 km from Mandvi, buses and shared taxis run to Mandvi; from Mandvi, shared rickshaws go to Bada, or to Layja, 7 km from Bada. Courses range from children's and teenagers' courses and 3-day courses for old students to 10-day, Satipatthana Sutta, special 10-day, and 20-, 30-, 45- and 60-day courses, with instructions in Hindi and English.

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).