He held his first Vipassana camp in Kalbadevi in July 1969. Goenka, who died in 2013, established the first centre at Igatpuri near Nashik. The grand pagoda at Gorai, modelled on the Shwedagon ...

Vipassana translates to “seeing things as they really are.” It is a meditation technique discovered around 2,500 years ago by Gautama Buddha. S.N. Goenka began to teach it in its modern form in 1969.