S. N. Goenka and the Ten-Day Course
Its founder taught his first course in 1969, working within a specific Burmese teaching lineage, and built a dedicated retreat centre in India seven years later that became the model replicated at every subsequent centre — a modern institutional structure built quickly around a much older meditation technique.
S. N. Goenka's first course, Bombay (1969); the founding of Dhamma Giri, Igatpuri (1976)
A structured ten-day silent meditation retreat format, now taught at over two hundred centres worldwide and the direct ancestor of secular mindfulness programmes.