Name: Na Uyana Aranya (Monastery)
Address: Sri Lanka, LK

Na Uyana Aranya (Monastery) is a place of worship, located at Sri Lanka. Visit their website nauyana.org for more detailed information.

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Added by Jopie, at 14 February 2016

Monday Open 24 hours
Tuesday Open 24 hours
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Anonymous

13 May 2019

one of the best meditation center in sri lanka and there are lot of meditation cottages and conductors
Anonymous

29 April 2019

Great monastery filled with serenity and calmness. The monastery is devoted for spiritual development in theravada meditations.
Anonymous

06 April 2019

Best place to meditation. Really good place to practice damma life It's a heaven for person who need to attend nirvana.( nibbana)

Triple gems bless you.
Anonymous

06 January 2019

Specially lot of foreign monks are meditating at this monastery. This place is like heaven. Very silent and peaceful. Well maintained and arranged. Beautiful flowers everywhere. Specially orchids. Open to people between 10am to 12pm. We should adhere to these rules.
Please be calm and silent when you visit there.
Anonymous

30 December 2018

Best preserved environment i have ever come across.. Very relaxing.. Well established.. Hospitality was impeccable.. very clean and excellent garbage management..

Easiest 5 x🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ever for a monetary..

*** NOTE: being that this place is reserved for mediators, please refrain from site-seeing..***
Anonymous

09 May 2018

Spreading in a large forest area, Na Uyana Aranya is an epitome of peace and tranquility. It is an ideal place to be in for contemplation, mindfulness, and meditation. Better yet, for those who comes here for renouncing the world, for higher training, the ordination. I have spent my golden three months here and I enjoyed single moments of it. The lifetime memories that I made here with my dhamma friends, I cherish now and then. If time permits, I am eager to join this noble place someday again.
Anonymous

17 April 2018

Calm serene place for monks tp meditate in. Belongs to Kalyani yogasrama sansthawa headed by late most venerable Nauyane Ariyadhamma Thero
Anonymous

14 April 2018

A most sacred Meditation center in jungle where many nationalities stay & practise meditation & Lord Buddha's teachings.
Anonymous

11 April 2018

Peaceful and really a good place to do meditation. If you want you can stay meditating with the permission for a few days too.
NOTE : YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO ENTER THE MONASTERY DURING 10.00AM TO 12PM BECAUSE YOU MAY DISTURB MEDITATION
Anonymous

25 March 2018

A really a peaceful and a worthy place to improve your spiritual life with meditation
Anonymous

23 February 2018

Peace, tranquility, very helpful monks who really try to help and guide.
Anonymous

04 February 2018

Ancient cave dwellings with Brāhmī inscriptions as well as ruins of a small Stupa complex have been found at Na Uyana which date back to 3rd century BCE. The new stupa of the monastery is built on the location of this complex. One inscription states that King Uttiya has donated his pleasure grove to the Sangha. As Uttiya was the successor to King Devanampiya Tissa, during whose reign Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka, the ancient monastery at Na Uyana seems to have been one of the first in the country established outside Anuradhapura.

The ancient monastery was rediscovered by Ven. Wigoda Bodhirakkhita Thera in 1954. Sayadaw U Nandavamsa and Sayadaw U Javana, senior Burmese disciples of Mahasi Sayadaw, visited the monastery in 1956.

Ven. Angulgamuwe Ariyananda Thera moved to Na Uyana in 1997 with a group of monks and started a revival that has made it the largest monastery in the Yogasrama Samstha. It is also one of the main international monasteries in Sri Lanka, with about 25 foreign monks. Ven. Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera, the Spiritual Director of Sri Kalyani Yogasrama Samstha, also used to reside at Na Uyana.
Anonymous

17 December 2017

Most sacred Meditation center in jungle where many nationalities stay & practise meitation & Lord Buddha's teachings.
Anonymous

02 October 2017

We went to the monastery to give an arms giving to the meditating people and the Monks. It was a very quite and beautiful place to visit. We do this every year.
Anonymous

25 September 2017

The Lord Buddha who will be born after 1800 "Athma"( in future) from this Era has spent his Bosath Awadiya here
Worth worship with full heart at least once in your lifetime.
SADHU !!! SADHU !!! SADHU !!!
Anonymous

28 August 2017

meditation practice here,to develop oneself.
Anonymous

15 August 2017

Best monastery ever been.great views and great climate ..
Anonymous

13 February 2017

Serene nd Silent!
Anonymous

30 December 2016

Quit and peaceful area to meditation and relax..
Anonymous

26 July 2016

Na Uyana Aranya Senasanaya is a Buddhist forest monastery. It spreads over more than 5000 acres of forest and is residence to about 150 Buddhist monks. and also most peaceful and beautiful monasteries in Sri Lanka and surroundings.
Anonymous

05 April 2016

Directions from Colombo to Na Uyana

Go to the Railroad Station at Pettah Market.
(There should be a tourist guide in the railroad station they may help you if you need help.)

Walk half a mile until you get St. Christopher's Bus Stop.

Ask for a bus to Melsiripura (Will take around 3 hours to get there)

Once in Melsiripura ask for a bus to Pansiyagama or Na Uyana (will take one more hour to get Pansiyagama)

Once in Pansiyagama you should see a sign that says NA UYANA. Walk down that road. You will pass a school on your right. In around 1 mile you will see another sign saying NA UYANA. Follow that sign. In around 2 miles you will see a sign in Sinhala with a little shrine with a Buddha Image inside. Follow that for around 1 mile and you should see the Bodhi Tree. The Monastery is half a mile after that.

Another tip! If you need someone who speaks English at the monastery try talking to the Doctor in the medicine room. He is a Westerner and speaks English. He is normally there 6am-12.
Anonymous

21 February 2016

I complete my retreat in 2012 ! Get re-orden in forest tradition. Now I implement in various part of India specially with the help of Maha Bodhi Society of India Sarnath and Budhgaya centre=Ven P. Seewalee Thero and Ven K. Medhankar thero helping us