Vision
To offer people the meditative tools to recognize the nature of their minds and achieve their highest potential for the benefit of all.
Mission
Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture supports the transformation of spiritual teachings into experience through contemplative retreat. As a spiritual community serving the needs of retreaters in all traditions, we are nurtured by the energy of our Tibetan Buddhist founder Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, by our teachers and holy objects, and by the stillness of the California redwood forest.
FPMT Affiliation
Vajrapani Institute is one of 132 organizations in a global network across 31 countries that make up the FPMT – Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. We are Buddhist teaching centers, monasteries, retreat centers, hospices, publishing houses, prison projects, animal sanctuaries, Tibetan interpreter training programs and other activities. FPMT is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsongkhapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founders Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
As a registered non-profit religious organization, Vajrapani Institute is affiliated with FPMT Inc., whose international headquarters in Portland, Oregon coordinates global activities and works to realize the expansive vision set forth by our spiritual leadership.
