News and Events
Obituary
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Bangkok Post, Thailand
October 1, 2013
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/372301/vipassana-pioneer-goenka-dies-at-90
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Tribute and description of a 10-day course
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by Vasana Chinvarakorn
Bangkok Post, Thailand
October 1, 2013
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/372530/how-goenka-led-others-from-bondage-to-liberation
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Tribute from a teacher in another tradition who sat courses with Goenkaji
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by Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield blog, USA
October 1, 2013
http://www.jackkornfield.com/s-n-goenka-honoring-a-great-meditation-masters-passing/
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Brief biography
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by Sulekha Nair
FirstPost, India
September 30, 2013
http://www.firstpost.com/business/remembering-sn-goenka-the-man-who-brought-vipassana-back-to-india-1142861.html?utm_source=ref_article
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A personal account of the experience of learning Vipassana, by someone who recently attended a course at Dhamma Torana, near Toronto, Canada
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by Craig Desson
CBC Sunday Edition, Canada
September 30, 2013
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/The+Sunday+Edition/Segments/ID/2409373540/
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Tribute to Acharya S.N. Goenka
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The Wheel: A Shambhala Publications blog, USA
September 30, 2013
http://blog.shambhala.com/2013/09/30/remembering-s-n-goenka/
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"Sabbe sañkhãrã aniccãti, yadã paññãya passati,
Atha nibbindati dukkhe, esa maggo visuddhiyã."
“All conditioned things are transitory. When one understands this with
wisdom, then he is disgusted with suffering. This is the path to purity.”
- Dhammapada 277
30th January 1924 - 29th September 2013
Padma Bhushan Global Vipassana Acharya
Shri Satya Narayan Goenka's Demise
Param Pujya Gurudev Shri Satya Narayan Goenka, Global Acharya of Vipassana Meditation, has passed away peacefully at the ripe age of 90 at his residence on Sunday, 29th September, 2013 at 10:40 PM.
Funeral will be held on Tuesday, 1st October 2013 at 10:30 AM at Electric Funeral Ground near Oshiwara Bridge, Relief Road, (Opposite Ghaswala Compound), Jogeshwari West, Mumbai, India.