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The Bangkok Shambhala Meditation Center is on the third floor of the Young Place building on Sukhumvit Soi 23. It belongs to Shambhala, the worldwide community whose vision, in the centre’s words, rests on the principle that every human being has a fundamental nature of basic goodness.
The practice at its heart is shamatha vipashyana, which the centre describes as mindfulness-awareness meditation. It runs a weekly round of drop-in classes, with occasional visiting teachers and special programmes. Meditation instruction is free: newcomers can ask for it at the start of any class, and regular students may work over time with a trained meditation instructor of their choosing.
The centre’s lineage page traces Shambhala to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the first Sakyong of modern times, who held numerous meditative lineages and led a large monastic complex before leaving Tibet in 1959, and who began presenting the Shambhala teachings in the 1970s. The same page names Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, enthroned in 1995, as the lineage holder. Vajrasiddha, the community led by Vichak Panich, also draws on Trungpa’s lineage.
Visiting
Classes are drop-in, and newcomers can ask for meditation instruction, free of charge, at the start of any class. The centre is on the third floor of the Young Place building on Sukhumvit Soi 23; its website has directions and the current calendar.
Nearby
within 150 km
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Written from published sources by the volunteer editors. Not yet reviewed by an outside advisor.
- OrganisationBangkok Shambhala Meditation Center, home page: part of a global community aspiring to awaken kindness, goodness and wisdom within society; the principle of basic goodness; shamatha vipashyana, a mindfulness-awareness meditation, as the technique taught; a variety of weekly classes, regular drop-in classes, occasional visiting teachers and special events
- OrganisationBangkok Shambhala Meditation Center, 'How to get here': Sukhumvit Soi 23, third floor of the Young Place Plaza
- OrganisationBangkok Shambhala Meditation Center, 'What we offer': mindfulness-awareness meditation as the foundation of the centre's work; meditation instruction free to anyone, offered to newcomers at the beginning of every class; trained meditation instructors with whom students may form a working relationship
- OrganisationBangkok Shambhala Meditation Center, 'Shambhala Lineage': Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche as the first Sakyong in modern times, holder of numerous meditative lineages and head of a large monastic complex before leaving Tibet in 1959, presenting the Shambhala vision from the 1970s, author of Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior; Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, enthroned in 1995, named as the current lineage holder
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