Silent Meditation Retreat

Date: September 16. – 25. 2025
Place: Deer Park Institute, Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India (www.deerpark.in)

Audio: Download or Archive.org

We would like to thank our friends from Deer Park for organizing this course. We would also like to thank Rajender ji for recording, sorting, and processing the recordings. The recordings are of very high quality. We know this took a lot of work and time, and we really appreciate it.


The understanding of training in samadhi in the tradition of disciples and of Bodhisattvas is based on scriptures and personal experience in these two types of training.

The present course is suitable for all kinds of students interested in meditation on breath as the basis for training in both concentration and wisdom. The students will learn how the breath is used to develop different stages of absorption into the breath, in and out breath, whole body breath in the intermediate periods between in and out breath and ultimately for understanding of the insight practice in both traditions, that of disciples, and in the non-dualistic tradition connected with the bodhisattva training. A background in the study and practice of Theravada and Chinese tradition will be appreciated, but is not necessary. The main aim of the course is to share the experience of training assisted by outstanding teachers in both traditions.

Online lectures: Kumarajiva’s Meditation Manual

Online lecture series: Kumarajiva’s Meditation Manual
Place: Somaiya Vidyavihar University (somaiya.edu), Mumbai, India
Date: 02.03. 2021 – 10.20. 2021

Audio: Download or Archive.org
Bhante’s working version of English translation: here
KJ Somaiya Institute of Dharma Studies YouTube Channel

We thank Somaiya University for their kindness and for sharing these great lectures.


This is the series of lectures by Ven. Dhammadipa, starting from 3rd Feb 2021, organized by KJ Somaiya Institute of Dharma Studies, Somaiya Vidyavihar University. These teachings are based on one of the three meditation manuals ascribed to Kumarajiva in Chinese catalogues: the Chanfa yaojie, which Ven. Dhammadipa has translated into English. The special features of the text are the incorporation of bodhisattva ideas into classical Buddhist meditation. He will use selections from the text to explicate the meditation method in comparative light, drawing extensively upon his study of the Abhidharmakosa and his long years of study and practice guided by his teachers of the forest tradition in Sri Lanka and Burma.