Vipassana in Bangalore is two centers, on opposite ends of the city

There is no single "Vipassana Bangalore" address. Two Goenka-tradition centers serve the city from opposite corners. Dhamma Paphulla is in the north-western outskirts, at Alur Village off Tumkur Road (NH-4), about 23 km from Bangalore City Railway Station. Dhamma Sukhalaya is in the east, at Arehalli Village near Whitefield, about 38 km from City Railway Station. Both are residential, both are free, and both teach the same 10-day course in the tradition of S.N. Goenka. The practical difference for most people is which side of the city they can actually get to.

Start with geography, because Bengaluru traffic makes cross-city travel on course day miserable. If you are on the Tumkur Road / Yeshwantpur / Peenya side, Dhamma Paphulla is far closer (about 16 km from Yeshwantpur). If you are on the Whitefield / Marathahalli / eastern side, Dhamma Sukhalaya is the natural choice. After geography, look at the calendar: only Paphulla runs the advanced track (a Satipatthana Sutta course and special 10-day courses for experienced students), while Sukhalaya is the one that runs children's courses and courses in Kannada. For a first 10-day course, either works, so pick the one you can reach.

Nothing. At both Dhamma Paphulla and Dhamma Sukhalaya there is no charge for the teaching, the food, or the accommodation. The tradition runs entirely on donations, and donations are accepted only from students who have already completed a 10-day course. So a first-timer is effectively hosted by everyone who sat before them. At the end you may give what you wish if the course helped you, or nothing at all, and your place was never conditional on paying.

Paphulla means "cheerfulness of Dhamma." It sits on gently sloping land in the north-western outskirts, with farmland on one side. The meditation hall comfortably seats 120 meditators. The male block has 48 single rooms with attached bathrooms plus 2 twin rooms, and the female block has 26 twin-sharing rooms. All residences have solar hot water, and a big defunct well was converted to store up to 10 lakh litres of harvested rainwater. It is the center that carries the fuller advanced calendar for the Bangalore area.

Two things stand out. First, location: it is on the eastern side near Whitefield (Arehalli Village, Kalkunte Post, 560117), reachable via the Kadugodi metro station on the Purple Line and a short bus toward Hope Farm. Second, its calendar. Sukhalaya is the Bangalore-area center that regularly runs children's courses for ages 10 to 18, along with children's course seva workshops, and it lists courses in Kannada, English and Hindi. If you want a course in Kannada, or you are looking at a course for a child, Sukhalaya is usually the one.

Yes. Both centers run standard 10-day courses open to new students, and the 10-day residential course is the entry point to this tradition everywhere. The 1-day and 3-day courses on the schedules are for old students only, meaning people who have already completed a full 10-day course, so those are not where a first-timer starts. Seats fill, especially on popular dates, so applying a few weeks ahead helps.

Course calendars change constantly, so the live dates and the online application live on the official schedule site: schedule.vridhamma.org/courses/paphulla for Dhamma Paphulla and schedule.vridhamma.org/courses/sukhalaya for Dhamma Sukhalaya. Registration for Paphulla is by email at registration@paphulla.dhamma.org; Sukhalaya's registration email is registration@sukhalaya.dhamma.org. Whatever a website or app tells you, the technique itself is only taught in person inside a course, so treat dhamma.org and the assistant teacher at your course as the authority on anything about how to practice.