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As a result of the successful outreach efforts of the Gyuto monks over the last 10 years, the Gyuto 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 to provide additional space for visiting teachers and monks, retreat facilities, Tibetan cultural events, students housing, dinning facilities and parking areas. The monks hope to build a Gyuto Monastery as a Learning Center in the Bay Area that will not only provide a location for their current spiritual and cultural activities but also become a sustainable foundation for the future.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has given his full support to this project as it realizes his personal vision of creating Learning Centers that besides bringing the Tibetan community together can be of great benefit to the local community and provide a place where different traditions and groups can discuss their beliefs and ideas in peace and harmony. The Gyuto monks need your support to help build this Monastery and Learning Center in the Bay Area.

His Holiness express support for this project please watch video:

To see an artist's model 3D animation of the Monastery.

Website Section about the Monastery Project. 

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!