10 Facts About Vipassana movement

Vipassana movement, called the Insight Meditation Movement and American vipassana movement, refers to a branch of modern Burmese Theravada Buddhism that promotes "bare insight" (sukha-vipassana) to attain stream entry and preserve the Buddhist teachings, which gained widespread popularity since the 1950s, and to its western derivatives which have been popularised since the 1970s, giving rise to the more dhyana-oriented mindfulness movement.

Burmese vipassana movement has its roots in the 19th century, when Theravada Buddhism came to be influenced by western modernism, and some monks tried to restore the Buddhist practice of meditation.

Since the 1980s, the Vipassana movement has given way to the largely secularized "mindfulness" practice, which has its roots in Zen and vipassana-meditation, and has eclipsed the popularity of vipassana meditation.

Vipassana movement emphasizes the use of vipassana to gain insight into the three marks of existence as the main means to attain wisdom and the beginning of awakening and become a stream-enterer, or even attain full liberation.

Vipassana movement asserted that Vipassana technique of meditation was originally espoused in Rigveda however lapsed after the Vedic era and was rejuvenated by Gautam Buddha.

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Vipassana movement promotes the extensive development of the four jhanas, states of meditative absorption and focus.

Vipassana movement's encouraged women who were mothers of young children to practice vipassana through the daily activities of mothering.

Vipassana movement's once said to Joseph Goldstein that "Women have an advantage over men because they have more supple minds.

Vipassana movement traditions have offered meditation programs in some prisons.

Vipassana movement is being taught in Jail 4 of Tihar Prisons to inmates in two ten day courses every month around the year since 1994 onwards.