About the Meditation Centre
Situated in Colombo and easily accessible from the city and surrounding suburbs, the Meditation Centre serves as the principal place of practice for our community.
It provides an environment where practitioners can study the Buddha Dhamma, cultivate a regular meditation practice, receive individual guidance, and participate in weekly Dhamma classes and community activities. Designed to support both those beginning the path and experienced practitioners seeking to deepen their practice, the Centre offers a setting in which the Dhamma can be lived as well as learned.
More than a place of instruction, the Meditation Centre is intended to be a place of practice—a quiet environment where the teachings of the Buddha are carefully studied, sincerely cultivated, and gradually realised.
The Meditation Centre is also home to three resident Theravāda Buddhist monastics.
As a Theravāda vihāra, the Centre provides accommodation for members of the Bhikkhu Saṅgha who live in accordance with the Vinaya, the monastic discipline established by the Buddha. Their presence forms an integral part of the community, preserving the continuity of the teaching while providing guidance, support, and an example of a life dedicated to the practice of the Dhamma.
In keeping with the Vinaya, residential accommodation at the Centre is available exclusively to ordained male monastics.
Monastic Residence
The Centre's Development
The Meditation Centre has developed gradually to support the needs of a practising community.
At present, it comprises a meditation hall, a communal kitchen serving resident practitioners and visitors, and residential accommodation for the resident monastics.
As the community continues to develop, future plans include the construction of a shrine room and a dāna śālāwa (alms hall), providing dedicated spaces for devotional practice and for offering meals to the resident Saṅgha.
True to the principles of our community, the Centre has grown through the voluntary generosity (dāna) of practitioners and well-wishers. We receive no government funding, corporate sponsorship, or institutional sponsorship. Every stage of its development has been made possible by those who value the Buddha Dhamma and wish to help preserve a place where it may continue to be studied, practised, and realised.
We regard the development of the Centre not as an end in itself, but as the gradual creation of conditions that support the practice of the Dhamma. Every improvement is undertaken with this single purpose in mind: to preserve an environment in which present and future generations may cultivate the path taught by the Buddha.
A meditation centre is not measured by the beauty of its buildings, but by the sincerity of the practice it supports.
This simple principle continues to guide the development of our Centre.