International Meditation Centre (Yangon)

IMC Yangon, at 31A Inya Myaing Road in Bahan Township, is the original International Meditation Centre of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. He founded it in Rangoon (now Yangon) in 1952 and designed and built its Light of the Dhamma Pagoda as a teaching pagoda for meditation; the pagoda at IMC UK is modelled on it. The IMC website includes 1957 film of the centre while he was teaching there. Mother Sayamagyi (Daw Mya Thwin) practised and taught with him from 1953 until his death in January 1971, and continued to teach at IMC Yangon until she and Sayagyi U Chit Tin left Burma in 1978 to teach in the West. The centre now holds 10-day Anapana and Vipassana courses in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin and Mother Sayamagyi. As of 2026, regional teacher Saya U Khin Zaw leads a course every month, and a teacher from IMC UK leads a few more there each year. Local people contact Saya U Khin Zaw directly; students from outside Myanmar send their applications to IMC UK, which forwards them to him.

How to apply

Print the application form from IMC UK's website and post it or email a scan. For a course outside the UK, send it to the IMC contact for that country.

What is taught here

U Ba Khin's Vipassana as handed on by Mother Sayamagyi: 10-day courses with a live teacher, five days of Anapana and a suggested donation. Read about IMC (U Ba Khin).