Click on image to enlarge

The venerable monks at the Gyuto Center need your support to build a monastery. As a result of the successful outreach efforts of the Gyuto monks, the Gyuto Center plans to build a permanent monastery in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Center has outgrown its current location and it has become more and more challenging to accommodate the growing number of students and interested members of the community. There is a great need for additional rooms for visiting teachers and monks, retreat facilities, student housing, dining facilities and parking areas. The Gyuto monks hope to build a monastery that will accommodate all their current activities and needs as well as a monastery that will support expanded activities in the future.

Website Section about the Monastery Project.

• Our 3D animation.

This new monastery will allow the monks to help create a Tibetan cultural resource center with programs in Buddhist philosophy to preserve the endangered Tibetan culture, history and language for Tibetan children as well as members of the local community. This monastery would provide much needed support for elderly Tibetans and new Tibetan immigrants in the area.

The proposed monastery model with its traditional Tibetan architecture and design will serve as a profound cultural landmark, one which will uplift the mind and will be an inspiring and beautiful addition to the diversity of the greater Bay Area.

Thank you for your support of the Gyuto monastery and the Buddhist tradition!