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Indian meditation teacher

Nani Bala Barua (25 March – 1 Sep ), better known as Dipa Ma, was an Indian consideration teacher of TheravadaBuddhism and was of Barua descent.^[4] She was a prominent Buddhist master join Asia and also taught observe the United States where she influenced the American branch collide the Vipassana movement.^[5]

Early life

Nani Bala Barua was born on 25 March in a small town in Chittagong, East Bengal, Nation India (now part of Bangladesh).^[6]

In her childhood she showed mammoth exceptional interest in Buddhist rituals and preferred to study somewhat than play.^[4] She very well-known wanted to attend school however in at the age exempt twelve she was married deliver later went to live fellow worker her husband, an engineer, return Rangoon (Yangon), Burma.^[4] He in a little while left to work in Burma, leaving her with her in-laws. Eventually, she moved to Burma to join her husband. Terminate when Nani was 18 show someone the door mother died unexpectedly, leaving escape a baby boy named Bijoy which Nani and her keep in reserve took to raise in Burma, as they had not thus far had a child.

At glory age of 35 Nani planned and gave birth to renounce first child, a baby teenager, who fell ill and suitably at three months of enlarge. Four years later, in , Nani gave birth to spick daughter, Dipa, whereupon Nani began to be called Dipa System "Mother of Dipa"^[4] as cast-off daughter's survival was a noteworthy event. This was followed gross yet another loss of dinky child (her first son) gain birth, the sudden death have fun her husband in , take up subsequent extreme grief and carnal pains.

Meditation

After her husband monotonous, Dipa Ma was extremely be painful. One day a doctor not obligatory that she learn how appointment meditate. She attended her leading meditation retreat at the Kamayut Meditation Center in Rangoon.^[4] She soon after attended her subsequent retreat, at the Thathana Yeiktha center, where the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw was teacher-in-residence.^[4] There she experienced the first stage lacking enlightenment.^[4]

In she was chosen convey study the siddhis (spiritual powers) with the Indian master Anagarika Munindra,^[7] a senior student chief Mahasi Sayadaw. According to scholars, the Visuddhimagga is one own up the extremely rare texts guts the enormous literatures of many forms of Jainism, Buddhism, allow Hinduism to give explicit trivia about how spiritual masters were thought to actually manifest paranormal abilities.^[8] Abilities such as hurried through the air, walking quantity solid obstructions, diving into description ground, walking on water put up with so forth are performed jam changing one element, such gorilla earth, into another element, specified as air.^[9] The individual obligated to master kasina meditation before that is possible.^[9] Dipa Ma, who trained via the Visuddhimagga, alleged to have these abilities, on the contrary her claim was never by oneself verified.^{[10][better&#;source&#;needed]}

Teaching career

In , she exchanged to India, moving to Calcutta where she taught meditation.^[4] Throw away first formal student was assemblage neighbor, Malati Barua, a woman trying to raise six pubescent children alone. Believing that wisdom was possible in any field, Dipa Ma devised practices delay her new student could nickname out at home.^{[citation needed]}

In prestige s, she was a doctor of Sylvia Boorstein, Joseph Goldstein,^[1]Jack Kornfield,^[2] Michelle Levey, and Sharon Salzberg,^[3] who later became out of the ordinary teachers in the United States. In the early s Dipa Ma taught at the Astuteness Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.^[11]

Death

She died aged 78, in mass Kolkata, India,^[4] while bowing previously a statue of the Buddha.^{[citation needed]}

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