Buddhagaya International Sati Institute (BISI) is an international organization with its headquarter in Bodhgaya, India. It aims to help people to be free and to live their lives with happiness, vitality, generosity, and contentment. It also encourages people to strive and work for peace, justice and equality for the world.
SLOGAN : From darkness to light
CHIEF MONK TUTOR :
Mūla Saṅgha Nāyaka Buddhapāla Mahāthero
The Buddhagaya International Sati Institute(BISI) aims to encourage people to learn the valid theories and techniques that can change themselves and the world based on the original Buddhist teaching and authentic *SATI Art(practice). Consequently, they can be used concretely and usefully in the life.
The BISI aims to cultivate talented people who take the right view of existence, think and act so that all beings can live together freely and happily.
The BISI aims to foster talented people who try to live together, understand and care for the lives of others as well as their own.
The BISI aims to promote talented people who can create and consume new cultures and lead social communities, realizing present and future, freedom and happiness, equality and peace, justice and fairness, coexistence and harmony.
* SATI Art is the authentic method of practice created by the Buddha who established the original Buddhism.
Buddha used the Pāli bhāvanā as a means of practice, mainly sati(念) and sometimes vipassana(觀). SAT Art can be translated into meditation, practice, mindfulness, awarenss, etc in English.
24, February, 2020
The BISI signed an MOU with University of Delhi for training and developing SATI Art(practice) programs.
11, January, 2020
The BISI held the first international Sati Workshop 2020 in Buddhagaya, India.
23, August, 2019
Practice training course was opened for graduate students in University of Delhi.
15, November, 2016
The BISI headquarters moved to SATI Ārāma, in Buddhagaya, India.
25, December, 2006
The first International SATI Camp was held at SATI Ārāma, Buddhagaya in India.
5, October, 2000
The basic theories of the SATI Art( practice), titled 「BUDDHA Practice Method」, have been published.
7, March, 1993
The BISI was opened in Tongdosa Temple. (Its original name was ‘Youngchuk Buddhism Education center’)