Tracing the Untraceable Buddha: The Vipassana Meditator's Journey to Enlightenment by Damborg, Uffe
Tracing the Untraceable Buddha: The Vipassana Meditator's Journey to Enlightenment by Damborg, Uffe

Tracing the Untraceable Buddha: The Vipassana Meditator's Journey to Enlightenment

The essential teachings of the Buddha for students of vipassana meditation. Born into a Bengali Buddhist family...
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Author: Uffe Damborg
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: $29.94
Tracing the Untraceable Buddha: The Vipassana Meditator's Journey to Enlightenment by Damborg, Uffe

Tracing the Untraceable Buddha: The Vipassana Meditator's Journey to Enlightenment

$29.94
Tracing the Untraceable Buddha: The Vipassana Meditator's Journey to Enlightenment by Damborg, Uffe

Tracing the Untraceable Buddha: The Vipassana Meditator's Journey to Enlightenment

$29.94
Author: Uffe Damborg
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The essential teachings of the Buddha for students of vipassana meditation.

Born into a Bengali Buddhist family in 1915 and trained in Buddhist practice by the Burmese master Mahasi Sayadaw, Anagarika Munindra became a beloved and influential meditation teacher who contributed significantly to the dawn of Western Buddhism and the insight (vipassana) meditation movement. He taught many Western students in the 1960s and 1970s, and among them was Uffe Damborg, who lived with Munindra-ji in Bodh Gaya, India, for six years. Here, Damborg distills everything he learned from Munindra-ji and from his subsequent decades of practice and teaching to present the Theravada path of vipassana meditation in modern language.

Damborg unpacks the story of the Buddha's spiritual journey and his core teachings on non-self, karma, perception, meditation, and the four noble truths--not as ideas to be intellectually understood but as meditative insights to be cultivated as one approaches the Buddhist goal of stream entry, a profound shift in consciousness that orients one's life toward nibbana, or enlightenment. With reflections on Damborg's formative years with Munindra-ji, whose teaching style emphasized direct experience over dogma, this uniquely personal work illuminates the path of vipassana meditation for beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

Author: Uffe Damborg
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 07/28/2026
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781645473954


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/27/2026
Foreword 06/27/2026

About the Author
UFFE DAMBORG holds a M.Sc. in psychology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In the 1960s and 1970s, he studied Buddhism and meditation in monasteries and hermitages in the East and lived for six years with renowned vipassana teacher Anagarika Munindra-ji in Bodh Gaya, North India. He lives in Sweden and regularly teaches vipassana meditation at Scandinavian retreats.
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