Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre

Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre (Sinhala: නිල්ලඹ බෞද්ධ භාවනා මධ්‍යස්ථානය) is situated near Galaha in Kandy District, Sri Lanka. It offers regular meditation courses that need to be booked in advance (Dhammika, 2008). History A group of elders such as Ratnayaka, Godwin Samararatana, Bhante S. Dhammika, Dr Parakrama Fernando, Prof. Lily De Silva, Pat Jayatilleke and Prof. Witanachchi who gathered twice a week at the Engineer’s Bungalow at Peradeniya University for meditation sittings decided to build a place for meditation after they were asked by the university authorities to vacate the Engineer’s Bungalow in 1977. As a result, the present meditation centre was constructed in Nilambe in the late 1970s on a plot of land donated by a Kandyan businessman named P. B. Alahakoon and his wife. In the beginning, the meditation centre consisted of a single hall with an attached kitchen and immediately after it was opened, Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, who happened to be visiting Sri Lank…