Kumashpur, also spelled Kumaspur and Kumaspura,[1] is a village within Municipal Corporation of Sonipat in Sonipat district of Haryana state in India.[2][3][4] It is 11 km from Sonipat Junction railway station, 45 km from Maharana Pratap Inter State Bus Terminus at Kashmiri Gate, Delhi, and 190 km from Chandigarh on NH1 Grand Trunk Road.[2][5]
Etymology
editKumashpur was known as "Kammasadamma" in pali language Buddhist texts and the "Kamas Nigam" in Sanskrit texts, which later came to be known as "Kamas Dham", and finally in its present corrupted form as "Kumashpura" which has been shortened to "Kumashpur".[1][5]
History
editDuring vedic era, it was part of Kuru Kingdom of Mahabharata. In 545 BCE, Buddha visited "Kammasadamma" as mentioned in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. At the time of Buddha's visit, Kumashpur was a trading hub. He chose this place to give his famed discourse called Mahasatipatthana sutta. Buddha said he chose this place for "Mahasatipatthana" because it was the land of virtuous and moral Kuru people who practiced sila (five core tenets of Buddhism), hence they were more suited to receive and grasp the details of "Mahasatipatthana sutta". Since people of Kuru kingdom were moral people who were already following "sila", Buddha did not include the learning of "sila" in "Mahasatipatthana sutta" discourse.[1][5]
"Mahasatipatthana sutta", which means "The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness", stresses the practice of sati (mindfulness) for realization of nirvana, and this sutta later became the foundation for vipassanā yoga meditation.[6][note 1][note 2] In 1997-98 from the ancient Pali Tharaveda Buddhist texts, Satya Narayan Goenka traced the association of Kumashpura with the Kammasadamma and Buddha's "Mahasatipatthana sutta" discourse at this place.[5] He build a pagoda and vipassana meditation centre here.[5] Goenka, a sanatani Hindu born in Burma to Marwari Indian parents,[7] learnt vipassana from Sayagyi U Ba Khin and became a vipassana teacher and founder of meditation centres in India, Thailand and other nations.[8][9][10][11] For his services to the society, Goenka was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2012 by the government of India.[12]
Pagoda and vipasana Centre
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Dhamma Patthana Vipasana Centre, built on 7.5 acres, has "Aastha Pugdal Pagoda" with 63 meditation cells, 2 Dhamma meditation halls, 59 resort style standalone cottages with attached bathroom which can house 33 male and 22 female yoga practitioners. Centre offers 10 days to 45 days meditation courses.[5][1] "Dhamma Paṭṭhāna", meaning "established in dhamma" in Pali language, is the sacred site where Buddha gave the famous "Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta" (Maha Sutta).[13]
See also
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edit- ^ Sanskrit: Smṛtyupasthāna Sūtra स्मृत्युपस्थान सूत्र, Chinese: 念處經
- ^ Famously, the Buddha declares at the beginning of this discourse: "This is the direct way [Pāli: ekāyano [...] maggo],[subnote 1] monks, for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the extinguishing of suffering and grief, for walking on the path of truth, for the realization of nibbāna."
- ^ While recognizing that ekāyano [...] maggo is "more commonly" translated as "the only path," Anālayo (2006, pp. 27-9) argues that ekāyano [...] maggo is best translated as "direct path" based on the contextual meaning of ekāyano in the Mahāsīhanāda Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 12, Ñanamoli & Bodhi, 1994, where ekāyano describes a "one way only" path), its absence from other suttas, implications of speedy realization within the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta itself, and commentarial elaboration. The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary (Rhys Davids & Stede, 1921-25) appears to support Anālayo's assessment in their entry for "Ayana": "ekāyano maggo leading to one goal, a direct way" (retrieved 15 May 2010 from http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:2056.pali.895215).
Citations
edit- ^ a b c d Aastha Pugdal Pagoda at Kumaspur (Kamas Nigam in Sonepat, SDBST.
- ^ a b "जीटी रोड पर 20 जगहों पर जान का खतरा, एनएचएआई नहीं कर रहा काम, ट्रैफिक इंचार्ज ने डीसी को लिखा पत्र- Amarujala". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ Automation, Bhaskar. "संयुक्त निदेशक ने लिया परीक्षा का जायजा". Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi). Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ "सोनीपत: मुठभेड़ में 50-50 हजार के 5 इनामी समेत 11 बदमाश गिरफ्तार, एक सिपाही घायल- Amarujala". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Dhamma patthana, dhamma.org.
- ^ Vipassana Research Institute, 1996, pp. 2, 3.
- ^ "'You have to work out your own salvation'". Indian Express. 3 July 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ^ "Master of the Dhamma: An Interview with S. N. Goenka". Inquiring Mind. 4 (1). Summer 1987. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^ "S. N. Goenka, Pioneer of Secular Meditation Movement, Dies at 90". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ^ "Remembering SN Goenka, the man who brought Vipassana back to India". First Post. 30 September 2013. Archived from the original on 17 June 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ^ Norman Fischer (September 2001). "The Universal Meditation Technique of S.N. Goenka (interview)". Lion's Roar. pp. 1–3. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ^ "Padma Awards Announced". Ministry of Home Affairs, Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ^ Dhamma Paṭṭhāna.
External links
edit- Vipassana Research Institute, founder of pagoda at Kumashpur.