Dhammodaya

Dhammodaya ('rising of Dhamma', a name given by S. N. Goenka) was the first centre of this tradition in Taiwan. In April 1998 an old-student couple offered their house at Xinshe, Taichung, as a course site; the site was later bought by the Taiwan Vipassana Meditation Foundation, under which name the centre was established in June 1999. S. N. Goenka visited in August 1998 and led a 3-day course for old students. The campus covers about 10,000 square metres on a plateau at 450 m near Taichung. For more than 20 years it ran 25 to 30 courses a year with about 60 students each, and some 30,000 people have attended courses there. dhamma.org says the campus has been under reconstruction since October 2019. The centre's development page, headed as a 2026 update, says construction was to begin in May 2024 and last 12 to 15 months, and that the new centre will focus on 10-day courses for about 100 students (about 60 women and 36 men) and about 20 servers, in eight buildings including a main and a smaller Dhamma hall. As of October 2026, all courses on its schedule (10-day, 1-day, and children's and teenagers' courses) are held at the Chiayi non-centre site on Wufeng South Road in Chiayi City, which has held courses since September 2019 and runs single-sex courses, alternately for men and women. Instructions are in Mandarin and English, and courses run on donations.

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).