A fully equipped Center
As a meditation center, we offer a place dedicated to inner process. You are welcome either to do a retreat by yourself or bring along your group for a seminar.
We can accommodate comfortably 15 – 20 people.
Overview of Nalanda Retreat Center’s guest houses, rooms, guidelines and offered services. 2 single bedroom One of them with open-sky bathroom, the other with outside shower. Nalanda Retreat Center is not a simple guest house. It is a place dedicated to spiritual practice leading to awakening, that is to say. to the discovery of our true nature. In order to promote effective practice and to help us turn attention within ourselves, silence is of primary importance. It helps us to see what we are used to projecting outwards and therefore enables us to understand how we create our suffering and the one of others by unknowingly building our own prison with our conditionings and fixed ideas. Therefore, Nalanda Retreat Center has established guidelines and a program that we ask you to follow. It may not meet all your special needs so it will be necessary to adapt. Learn to save your energy by limiting your words to Dharma related questions or practical problems. If you leave the compounds of the Center, it is imperative to return before 6 pm because the gates are closed at night Please leave your mobile phones in the office to free yourself from constant information. Group meditations are scheduled in the morning and in the evening. 2 meals are served each day, breakfast at 9 AM and lunch at 2 PM The library is at your disposal. We encourage you to respect the precepts followed in most Buddhist centers: In your room: Take care to close your windows and doors when going out and turn off the lights and fan. As we are in a rural area, it is important to respect local customs and dress accordingly, covering your shoulders and legs. It’s also a way to protect yourself against insects. Please don’t hesitate to contact us in case of questions or special needs
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Single Bungalows
Nalanda Retreat Center’s Guest Houses Guidelines
Otherwise, make sure to keep them always under “airplane” mode.
You can share Kumar’s phone number to your relatives in case of emergency: +94 77 623 85 92
If the cross-legged position is unpleasant for you, do not hesitate to sit on chairs.
In the evening a light snack is available.
Tradititionnaly for meditation it’s advised not to eat in the evening
If you take books into your room, please write your names in a notebook provided in the shelf for this purpose.
Avoid harming or killing any living being.
Take care of what is made available to you.
Do not take other’s belongings or was is not given to you.
Be respectful to others.
Refrain from lying and engaging in idle chatter and judgment.
No need to prove you are right.
Avoid alcohol and drugs which tend to distract the mind
Devote your time to developing inner calm to allow wisdom to manifest.
The Center declines any responsibility in the event of loss.
The values can be left at the office and kept under lock.
Hot drinks can be prepared in your rooms but do not bring any food or sugar which attracts ants.
Don’t feed monkeys as we have to keep them away to protect our garden.
In order to keep mosquitoes outside at night, close your windows before sunset, around 5 pm
Kindly do not smoke in your room nor on the whole compound.
Please turn off the switches on your electrical outlets after use due to the risk of overload following power cuts.
Please do not throw paper, tampons, hair or detergents in the toilet as they could block the pipes and disrupt the transformation taking place in the septic tanks.
Garbage bins are provided in the bathrooms and the bags can be emptied into the hole located behind the grandparents’ house.
All non-compostable waste is burned therefore we thank you for reducing it to a minimum.
You can swim in the lake, taking care to wear leggings and a T-shirt for women or long shorts for men.
The key to the lower gate is available from the grandparents.Any questions or specials inquieries ..
97a Meegolla Rd
hello@nalanda-center.org
0094 74 339 85 92