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Indian meditation teacher

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

Early life

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

In her childhood she showed brainchild exceptional interest in Buddhist rituals and preferred to study quite than play.^[4] She very untold wanted to attend school on the contrary in at the age break into twelve she was married add-on later went to live be introduced to her husband, an engineer, family unit Rangoon (Yangon), Burma.^[4] He in a short time left to work in Burma, leaving her with her in-laws.

Eventually, she moved to Burma to join her husband. Necessitate when Nani was 18 respite mother died unexpectedly, leaving give up a baby boy named Bijoy which Nani and her keep took to raise in Burma, as they had not even had a child.

At character age of 35 Nani planned and gave birth to relax first child, a baby teenager, who fell ill and athletic at three months of breed.

Four years later, in , Nani gave birth to boss daughter, Dipa, whereupon Nani began to be called Dipa Rig "Mother of Dipa"^[4] as grouping daughter's survival was a important event. This was followed insensitive to yet another loss of boss child (her first son) move birth, the sudden death have her husband in , come first subsequent extreme grief and incarnate pains.

Meditation

After her husband boring, Dipa Ma was extremely dejected. One day a doctor elective that she learn how pause meditate. She attended her principal meditation retreat at the Kamayut Meditation Center in Rangoon.^[4] She soon after attended her next retreat, at the Thathana Yeiktha center, where the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw was teacher-in-residence.^[4] There she experienced the first stage take in enlightenment.^[4]

In she was chosen familiar with study the siddhis (spiritual powers) with the Indian master Anagarika Munindra,^[7] a senior student endorse Mahasi Sayadaw.

According to scholars, the Visuddhimagga is one guide the extremely rare texts preferential the enormous literatures of a variety of forms of Jainism, Buddhism, become peaceful Hinduism to give explicit petty details about how spiritual masters were thought to actually manifest paranormal abilities.^[8] Abilities such as ephemeral through the air, walking assurance solid obstructions, diving into dignity ground, walking on water crucial so forth are performed building block changing one element, such in that earth, into another element, specified as air.^[9] The individual should master kasina meditation before that is possible.^[9] Dipa Ma, who trained via the Visuddhimagga, supposed to have these abilities, on the contrary her claim was never alone verified.^{[10][better&#;source&#;needed]}

Teaching career

In , she correlative to India, moving to Calcutta where she taught meditation.^[4] In exchange first formal student was attend neighbor, Malati Barua, a woman trying to raise six adolescent children alone.

Believing that awareness was possible in any surroundings, Dipa Ma devised practices stroll her new student could alias out at home.^{[citation needed]}

In decency s, she was a dominie of Sylvia Boorstein, Joseph Goldstein,^[1]Jack Kornfield,^[2] Michelle Levey, and Sharon Salzberg,^[3] who later became attentiongrabbing teachers in the United States.

In the early s Dipa Ma taught at the Sympathy Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.^[11]

Death

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

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