The First Years of Vipassana in California

By Bill Crecelius | 3/8/2026

In the early 1970s, when the first of Goenkaji’s American students came back from India, there wasn’t any organization in North America to provide information about Vipassana meditation. Vipassana meditators would contact others they had met at Goenkaji’s courses in India. If they were in the same area, they would meet to meditate or simply to spend time together.

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Dhamma Dharā—Land of Dhamma

By Barry Lapping and Friends | 3/1/2026

In June 1981, Goenkaji made his first teaching visit to the northeastern United States, conducting a large course at a rental facility in Goshen, Massachusetts. After the course, he met with local students in Boston and encouraged them to begin looking for a site that could become a permanent center for the practice of Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. The students at once began searching for a suitable property, but without success.

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