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'''Kumashpur''', also spelled Kumaspur and Kumaspura,<ref name="kamas1" /> is a village within Municipal Corporation of Sonipat in [[Sonipat district]] of Haryana.<ref name="kum3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.amarujala.com/haryana/sonipat/151542482968-sonipat-news|title=जीटी रोड पर 20 जगहों पर जान का खतरा, एनएचएआई नहीं कर रहा काम, ट्रैफिक इंचार्ज ने डीसी को लिखा पत्र- Amarujala|work=Amar Ujala|access-date=2018-11-25|language=hi-IN}}</ref><ref name="kum4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bhaskar.com/harayana/sonipat/news/joint-director-examination-taken-030633-3254970.html|title=संयुक्त निदेशक ने लिया परीक्षा का जायजा|last=Automation|first=Bhaskar|work=Dainik Bhaskar|access-date=2018-11-25|language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.amarujala.com/chandigarh/crime/11-gangsters-arrested-by-police-after-encounter-in-sonipat-village-kumaspur|title=सोनीपत: मुठभेड़ में 50-50 हजार के 5 इनामी समेत 11 बदमाश गिरफ्तार, एक सिपाही घायल- Amarujala|work=Amar Ujala|access-date=2018-11-25|language=hi-IN}}</ref> 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 [[National Highway 1 (India)|NH1]] [[Grand Trunk Road]].<ref name="kum3" /><ref name="kamas2" />

== Etymology ==
Kumashpur was known as ''"Kammasadamma"'' in [[pali]] language [[Buddhist texts]] and the ''"Kamas Nigam"'' in [[Hindu text|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"''.<ref name=kamas1/><ref name=kamas2/>

==History==
During [[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 [[Buddhist ethics|land of virtuous]] and moral [[Kaurava|Kuru people]] who practiced [[Five precepts|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.<ref name=kamas1/><ref name=kamas2/>

''"Mahasatipatthana sutta"'', which means ''"The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness"'', stresses the practice of [[sati (Buddhism)|sati]] (mindfulness) for realization of ''[[nirvana (Buddhism)|nirvana]]'', and this sutta later became the foundation for [[vipassanā]] [[yoga]] meditation.<ref>Vipassana Research Institute, 1996, pp. 2, 3.</ref>{{refn|group=note|Sanskrit: ''Smṛtyupasthāna Sūtra'' स्मृत्युपस्थान सूत्र, [[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 念處經}}{{refn|group=note|Famously, the Buddha declares at the beginning of this discourse: "This is the direct way [Pāli: ''ekāyano [...] maggo''],{{refn|group=subnote|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, [http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.012.ntbb.html 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).}} 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 ''[[nirvana (Buddhism)|nibbāna]]''."}} In 1997-98 from the ancient Pali Tharaveda Buddhist texts, [[S. N. Goenka|Satya Narayan Goenka]] traced the association of Kumashpura with the Kammasadamma and Buddha's ''"Mahasatipatthana sutta"'' discourse at this place.<ref name=kamas2/> He build a pagoda and vipassana meditation centre here.<ref name=kamas2/> Goenka, a [[sanatani]] [[Hindu]] born in Burma to [[Marwari people|Marwari]] Indian parents,<ref name=exp10>{{cite web| title = 'You have to work out your own salvation'|publisher=Indian Express| url = http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-you-have-to-work-out-your-own-salvation-/640972/0|date=3 Jul 2010| accessdate = 1 October 2013 }}</ref> learnt vipassana from Sayagyi U [[Ba Khin]] and became a vipassana teacher and founder of meditation centres in [[Global Vipassana Pagoda|India]], [[S._N._Goenka#Meditation Centres|Thailand]] and other nations.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.inquiringmind.com/Articles/MasterOfTheDhamma.html|volume=4|issue=1|date=Summer 1987|journal=Inquiring Mind|title=Master of the Dhamma: An Interview with S. N. Goenka|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924035119/http://www.inquiringmind.com/Articles/MasterOfTheDhamma.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tricycle.com/blog/s-n-goenka-pioneer-secular-meditation-movement-dies-90|title=S. N. Goenka, Pioneer of Secular Meditation Movement, Dies at 90 |publisher=[[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review]]|date=1 October 2013|accessdate=13 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Remembering SN Goenka, the man who brought Vipassana back to India | publisher = First Post | url = http://www.firstpost.com/business/remembering-sn-goenka-the-man-who-brought-vipassana-back-to-india-1142861.html | date = 30 Sep 2013 | accessdate = 1 October 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180617050348/https://www.firstpost.com/business/remembering-sn-goenka-the-man-who-brought-vipassana-back-to-india-1142861.html | archive-date = 17 June 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name=sam>{{cite web|title=The Universal Meditation Technique of S.N. Goenka (interview)|url=http://www.lionsroar.com/the-universal-meditation-technique-of-s-n-goenka/|author=Norman Fischer|authorlink=Zoketsu Norman Fischer|date=September 2001|accessdate=1 October 2013|pages=1–3|publisher=[[Lion's Roar (magazine)|Lion's Roar]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321102156/http://www.lionsroar.com/the-universal-meditation-technique-of-s-n-goenka/|archive-date=21 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> For his services to the society, Goenka was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2012 by the government of India.<ref>{{cite web| title =Padma Awards Announced|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India| url = http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=79881|date=25 January 2012| accessdate = 1 October 2013 }}</ref>

==Pagoda and vipasana Centre==
{{anchor | Pagoda | Aastha Pudgal Pagoda | Kumashpur Pagoda | Kumashpur vipassana centre }}
{{see also | Global Vipassana Pagoda | Golden Pagoda, Namsai | l2= Namsai Golden Pagoda }}

'''Dhamma Patthana Vipasana Centre''', built on 7.5 acres, has ''"Aastha Pugdal [[Pagoda]]"'' with 63 meditation cells, 2 [[Dharma#Buddhism|Dhamma]] meditation halls, 59 resort style standalone [[cottage]]s with attached bathroom which can house 33 male and 22 female yoga practitioners. Centre offers 10 days to 45 days meditation courses.<ref name=kamas2>[https://patthana.dhamma.org/en/dhamma-patthana/ Dhamma patthana], dhamma.org.</ref><ref name=kamas1>[http://sdbst.org/Kumaspur.aspx Aastha Pugdal Pagoda at Kumaspur (Kamas Nigam in Sonepat], SDBST.</ref> ''"Dhamma Paṭṭhāna"'', meaning ''"established in dhamma"'' in Pali language, is the sacred site where Buddha gave the famous ''"Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta["'' (Maha Sutta).<ref name=matasutta>[https://www.vridhamma.org/Center-Search?title_selective=All&country_selective=in&province_selective=HR&city_selective=All&field_children_course_value=0&field_teenager_course_value=All Dhamma Paṭṭhāna].</ref>

==See also==
* [[Bodh Stupa]]
* [[Global Vipassana Pagoda]]
* [[Golden Pagoda, Namsai]]
* [[History_of_Haryana#Buddhism|Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Haryana]]
* [[Buddhist pilgrimage sites]]
* [[Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India]]

==References==
===Notes===
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===External links===
* [https://www.vridhamma.org/ Vipassana Research Institute], founder of pagoda at Kumashpur.

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Kamal Guha at 06:37, 25 November 2023