@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7zsz4z.9,
 ISBN = {9780773543379},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zsz4z.9},
 abstract = {In 1955, Satya Narayan Goenka, an Indian Hindu businessman born and raised in Burma (Myanmar),¹ learned the technique of Vipassana² meditation from Sayagyi U Ba Khin, a high-ranking Burmese government official and pioneering lay Theravada meditation master. With his teacher’s encouragement, Goenka travelled to India in 1969 to disseminate Vipassana meditation in the country where the Buddha first discovered it. Since then, Goenka has established approximately 120 meditation centres worldwide, as well as one hundred other sites where ten-day silent, residential meditation courses are held. In 1979, Goenka travelled to Canada and France where he conducted the first of several},
 author = {KORY GOLDBERG},
 booktitle = {Flowers on the Rock: Global and Local Buddhisms in Canada},
 pages = {79--100},
 publisher = {McGill-Queen's University Press},
 title = {For the Benefit of Many: S.N. Goenka’s Vipassana Meditation Movement in Canada},
 year = {2014}
}