Daham Vila Buddhist Monastery

Siyane VMC or Kanduboda VMC.

Kanduboda, Delgoda.

Tel. 011-2445518; 011-2570306.
E-mail:

bhavanam@sltnet.lk or mupali@sltnet.lk 

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A meditation centre and monastery with a long tradition of offering meditation-instruction to

Westerners. Besides monks and nuns also lay meditators are welcome and some get

ordination here. The main teacher and head monk is Ven. Upāli, who is very experienced in

the Mahāsi tradition. Women have a separate, enclosed area, and ordination has sometimes

been given for western women (which may interest potential dasa-sīl-maenayos). A few large

buildings with rooms and some kuTis. It It is close to a small road and surrounded by coconut

plantations and a few village houses. The teaching is in the Mahāsi tradition. The vinaya is

reasonable. The daily schedule and discipline is more relaxed than in the Mahāsi centres in

Burma. More individual meditation than group meditation. 

Kanduboda has more than 25  branches throughout the country.

Most are of no significance for westerners.

              

Lanka Vipassana Centre, IVMC.

108 Wijerāma Mawatha, Colombo 7.

Tel. 011-2694-100.
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This is a branch of Kanduboda VMC. Ven. Pemasiri used to stay here, but moved to a new place

next to Kanduboda VMC in 2003 (see  previous entry). The place has had many Western long-term monastic- and lay-residents and was also often visited by Western monks staying some days in Colombo for extending

visas etc. Good support, tidy, clean, quiet. In Colombo’s diplomatic quarter. Suitable place for

lay-people who like to meditate. Fairly quiet for Colombo standards. Women stay in a

separate wing.