A meditation centre and monastery with a long tradition of offering meditation-instruction to Westerners. Besides monks and nuns also lay meditators are welcome and some get ordination here. The main teacher and head monk is Ven. Upali, who is very experienced in the Mahasi tradition. Women have a separate, enclosed area, and ordination has sometimes been given for western women (which may interest potential dasa-sil-maenayos). A few large buildings with rooms and some kuTis. It It is close to a small road and surrounded by coconut plantations and a few village houses. The teaching is in the Mahasi tradition. The vinaya is reasonable. The daily schedule and discipline is more relaxed than in the Mahasi centres in Burma. More individual meditation than group meditation. Approximately 20 kms E of Colombo. From the CTB Bus Station at Olcott Mawatha, Pettah, take the 224 bus which stops outside the monastery; also the 207 bus from Gampaha goes there. Some of the buses to Kirindivella are passing near Kanduboda (but this is not a good option, as they are infrequent). Kanduboda has more than 25 branches throughout the country. Most are of no significance for westerners.