13 Initial Centres in Sri Lanka

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The global expansion of the Mahāsi insight meditation method to Sri Lanka was inspired by Venerable Ānanda Maitreya’s successful training under Mahāsi Sayādaw, which led to a Burmese monastic delegation arriving in 1955. Despite early political hurdles, they established 12 regional centers, trained local preceptors, and secured land from Prime Minister Bandaranaike to build the grand McCarthy Road central headquarters by 1958.

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