S. N. Goenka, Burmese-Indian author and educator (died 2013)

S. N. Goenka

Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation (1924–2013)

Satya Narayana Goenka was an Indian teacher of vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma to an Indian business family, he moved to India in 1969 and started teaching meditation. His teaching emphasized that the Buddha's path to liberation was non-sectarian, universal, and scientific…