Dhamma Vaṭa

Dhamma Vaṭa ('Banyan Tree of Dhamma') is a developing centre at Tundav village in Savli taluka, Vadodara district, on the bank of the Mini river near Namisara village. The centre's website places it close to Dumad Chowkdi, near the exit from the Ahmedabad-Vadodara Expressway, within reach of Vadodara and Anand. The land measures 25.5 bighas, and dhamma.org gives 2019 as the year of its first course. Sunday group sittings were first held on the open land. So that courses could start before the main campus was built, the managing samiti planned a first phase in bamboo and other local materials: a meditation hall of about 2,200 sq ft for around 80 meditators, with walls and roof of treated bamboo layers, and a semi-covered dining area with a store and a server's room. As of 2026, dhamma.org says a meditation hall of that size has been built and the Sunday one-day courses are held in it, the admin block with kitchen is fully working and housing for servers is being built. As of October 2026 the centre holds one-day courses every Sunday and three-day courses each month, both for old students, with instructions in Hindi, English and Gujarati; no 10-day courses are listed here yet.

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).