
Retreat Center:
Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture
Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz County, California
www.vajrapani.org
vajrapani@vajrapani.org
Vajrapani Institute is a secluded retreat center supporting private retreatants of all traditions. It also has a program of Tibetan Buddhist group retreats and rents out its facilities to other sanghas. |
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Teaching Center:
Land of Medicine Buddha
Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California
www.medicinebuddha.org
office@medicinebuddha.org
Land of Medicine Buddha is a center devoted to developing a good heart. It is a perfect space to relax, connect with one’s spiritual inner being and recharge. It offers dharma teachings for all levels of experience, group rentals & overnight accommodations, beautiful walking & meditation trails, holy images and shrines. |
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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 their programming to cover health and fitness, current events, meditation groups for professionals, and support around death and dying. |
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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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Study Group:
Machig Labron Study Group
San Anselmo, Marin County, California
www.machig-labdron.org
Meditation and study group based in San Anselmo in Marin County. |
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Tara Redwood School
Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California
www.tararedwoodschool.org
Tara Redwood School is a Santa Cruz Preschool - Fourth Grade Essential Education & Montessori-based. It provides a curriculum and environment that nurtures the innate positive qualities within each child. |
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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. |
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Balanced Mind
www.balancedmind.us
Amy Barton-Cayton heads up Balanced Mind, a counselling and coaching group that offers effective strategies for transformation so you can achieve the life you want. Reduce stress - resolve issues, maximize your potential - increase your overall happiness. |
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The Karuna Group
www.thekarunagroup.com
The Karuna Group is a consulting, counseling and coaching organization committed to awakening the unlimited potential in people to have a positive impact on the world. They co-create transformation from the inside out: impacting both personal and professional lives. Their unique ability is the integration and application of contemporary Western thinking and Ancient Wisdom to be able to solve your modern problems. |
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International Mayayana Institute
www.imisangha.org
"People all over the world who want to practice the Buddhist path as a monk or nun have a place to be and a way to do that." The International Mahayana Institute (IMI) is a community of Buddhist monks and nuns of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). This community contributes to world peace and individual spiritual growth by keeping the Buddha’s teachings alive, and inspiring others with values of ethical behavior, tolerance, compassion and wisdom. |
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Liberation Prison Project
www.liberationprisonproject.org
Liberation Prison Project is a social services project which offers spiritual advice and teachings, as well as books and materials, to people in prison interested in exploring, studying and practicing Buddhism. |
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Tara Home
Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California
www.medicinebuddha.org/tara_home.htm
Tara Home provides residential care for terminally ill individuals in the last few months of life. Housed in a cozy cabin at Land of Medicine Buddha, the care is provided by a "family of volunteers." |
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