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The San Francisco Bay Area is ripe with Dharma activities, many of which are offered through our FPMT sister centers. These centers and services provide a wide variety of benefit, for people in all types of situations.
The Bay Area FPMT provides:
Teaching and Retreat Center:
Land of Medicine Buddha Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California
www.landofmedicinebuddha.org office@medicinebuddha.org
Land of Medicine Buddha (LMB) is a Buddhist Retreat and Learning Center located in the heart of Santa Cruz County on 108 acres of meadows and coastal redwoods. Visitors find the location a perfect balance of peacefulness and convenience, 10 minutes from local beaches and the town of Santa Cruz. LMB values a spirit of openness toward the diverse Buddhist community, offering weekly dharma classes, meditation and yoga classes, accommodations for personal retreats, Buddhist group retreats, and facility rental for other spiritually centered organizations. Boasting gorgeous hiking trails and inspiring holy objects, Land of Medicine Buddha invites all beings, Buddhist or not, to come visit and share in what the Center has to offer. Green Certified and Pet Friendly!
Teaching Center:
Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies San Francisco, California
www.tsechenling.org info@tsechenling.org
Tse Chen Ling is an urban meditation, study and practice center. It offers programs daily, including introductory classes, and a regular schedule of meditation practices and pujas. Its resident teacher is Geshe Ngawang Dakpa. The center is currently working to expand its programming to cover health and fitness, current events, meditation groups for professionals, and support around death and dying.
Teaching Center:
Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center (GGBC) Silicon Valley, Campbell, California
www.gyalwagyatso.org
GGBC offers courses, public talks, discussion groups and guided meditations in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition.
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Education Facility:
Tara Redwood School Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California
www.tararedwoodschool.org
Tara Redwood School, for children from preschool through Fourth Grade, uses an approach that is an integration of Essential Education & Montessori It provides a curriculum and environment that nurtures the innate positive qualities within each child.
Education Organization: The Institute for Creating Compassionate Cultures Santa Cruz County, California http://www.creatingcompassionatecultures.org/
The Institute for Creating Compassionate Cultures is an online educational environment providing training for educators & parents in innovative approaches to empowering children, youth and families to make a positive difference in their personal lives and communities.
Tibetan Art:
Tsa Tsa Studio Center for Sacred Tibetan Art San Francisco, California
www.tsatsastudio.org
The Studio offers regular classes and workshops on how to make tsa tsas, as well as a variety of other activities relating to sacred art. It also sells a wide variety of Buddhist statues through its online shop.
International Mah ayana Institute
www.imisangha.org
IMI is an FPMT community empowered to respond to, and take care of the needs of its family of monks and nuns through the development of quality education programs, harmonious monastic communities, effective communications, financial support, and advocacy.
The guiding vision of International Mahayana Institute is to provide people all over the world who want to practice the Buddhist path as a monk or nun with places to be and ways to do that.
Social Services:
Tara Home Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California
http://www.tarahome.org/
Tara Home provides residential care for terminally ill individuals in the last few months of life. Around-the-clock care is provided by a “family” of trained volunteers. Tara Home is located in a cozy cabin nestled in the redwoods at the Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel, California.
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