Dhamma Iran

Dhamma Iran, listed by dhamma.org as the Iran Vipassana Meditation Center, is the Goenka-tradition centre at No. 158, 219 Street, Eram Boulevard, in Mehrshahr. Its website, iran.dhamma.org, is in Persian and was last updated in 2009, according to its own footer; its course page asks applicants to register by email. The site says courses carry no charge, even for food and lodging, and are paid for by donations from people who have completed a course. An undated profile on the Vipassana Research Institute's website, giving the same address, describes a Dhamma House in a suburb of Tehran with six rooms for around 33 participants a course, and places Mehrshahr about 40 km from Tehran. The same profile says the first 10-day course in Iran was held near Tehran in August 1999 with 13 students, and that courses were later held in and around Tehran and in Ramsar, Kelardasht and Mashhad. The institute's directory gives 2004 as the year the centre was set up. No courses were shown on its dhamma.org schedule when checked in October 2026.

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).