Dhamma Pallava

Dhamma Pallava ('sprout' or 'bud of Dhamma') describes itself as the first Vipassana meditation centre in Poland. It stands in a quiet wooded area at Dziadowice in Malanów municipality (Turek County, Greater Poland), 25 km from the A2 motorway; Łódź is 95 km away, Poznań 120 km and Warsaw 220 km. Courses in Poland began in 2002 at rented sites. The 6.8-hectare plot, a meadow partly covered with trees and surrounded by forest, was bought in 2008, and S. N. Goenka chose the centre's name. Building began in June 2016, and the centre opened in September 2017 with an open day and its first 10-day course; the centre describes it as the first centre in Europe for 10-day courses to be built from the ground up. It accommodates 110 students and 18 servers (the centre's own page says about 20) in single en-suite rooms, with a teachers' house, a kitchen building with dining rooms, a meditation hall with adjoining lecture rooms and 66 cells for individual meditation. Water comes from its own deep well. The nearest town is Turek: on the first day of each course a taxi shuttle runs from Turek bus station, and the nearest airports are Poznań and Warsaw. Courses are mostly given in Polish and English, and its dhamma.org schedule also explains how to apply for German and English courses there.

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).