Programs

February Medicine Buddha Puja

Venerable Angie Muir

February 5, 2025

Medicine Buddha Puja: Ultimate Healing. Please join us for a Medicine Buddha Puja Feb. 5th from 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM!  February 5th is Medicine Buddha Day and the 8th day on the Tibetan calendar, a merit-multiplying day, which increases the strength of the puja. Merit refers to the positive energy or spiritual benefit accumulated […]

Green Tara Retreat

Yangsi Rinpoche

February 12 - 16, 2025

About the Retreat Meditating on Green Tara is a very powerful way to identify and connect with our own inner potential for wisdom and compassion. As the embodiment of all the Buddha’s actions in the female aspect, she has a special power to remove inner and outer obstacles, dispel our fears, and grant us success […]

Vajrayogini Self Initiation

Venerable Angie Muir and Elaine Jackson

February 22, 2025

Vajrayogini Self Initiation - In the Main Gompa and Online   When: February 22, 2025- 1:00pm - 5:00pm (PT) Where: Venerable Angie Muir and Elaine Jackson will lead the Vajrayogini Self Initiation in person in the gompa or online via Zoom. If joining online,  feel free to make offerings on your personal alter. Please email […]

Losar Celebration Online

Venerable Angie Muir

February 28 - March 2, 2025

Happy Losar! Vajrapani is hosting Special Prayers for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Swift Return     Friday, 28th, Saturday March 1st, and Sunday March 2nd 8:00 AM to 8:45 AM (PST) With Ven. Angie Muir Online Only     Please join us online to celebrate the first few days of the Tibetan New Year with special […]

Long Life Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche

Venerable Angie Muir

March 2, 2025

Long Life Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche First Sunday of the month 4:00pm – 5:30pm Pacific Time Online Only The four Bay Area FPMT centers (Land of Medicine Buddha, Ocean of Compassion, Tse Chen Ling, and Vajrapani) will offer Long Life Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and […]

The Buddha's Path to Bliss: A Kopan West Lamrim Retreat

Don Handrick

March 8 - 15, 2025

This is a Free, Pay It Forward Retreat! There are no fees for this retreat. The retreat is donation-based and offered freely to anyone who participates. It’s an experiment we started at 2012’s Kopan West - Lam Rim retreat in the spirit of making the Dharma (Buddha’s teachings) freely available to all. Your retreat is paid […]

Transforming Problems Into Happiness

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal

April 3 - 6, 2025

We are excited to welcome Ven. Tenzin Tsepal of Sravasti Abbey, who will share reflections based on a favorite Dharma book, Transforming Problems Into Happiness by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This small book contains volumes of practical advice for training the mind to see problems as beneficial conditions supportive of, and even necessary for, our happiness. […]

Experiential Vajrayogini Retreat

Elaine Jackson

May 22 - 25, 2025

Please join us for an experiential Vajrayogini Retreat with long-time FPMT Teacher and Vajrapani Founding Member, Elaine Jackson. Elaine is a student favorite, known for her warmth and skill in guiding her students through these profound and transformative tantric practices.   Elaine shares her heartfelt experiences about Vajrayogini Practice:   "My dear, dear friends, how […]

Nyung Nae Retreat

Venerable Charles

July 5 - 14, 2025

Save the Dates! Our most precious Venerable Charles has graciously agreed to return to Vajrapani in July 2025 to Lead 4 Nyung Naes. These dates are tentative. Please sign up for the waitlist and when the dates are confirmed, we will open up registration.   The lodging prices reflect a 25% discount if students attend […]

Family Camp 2025

July 24 - 27, 2025

  A weekend family retreat where participants are given the opportunity to better understand their mind and emotions through a Tibetan Buddhist lens using meditation, discussion, art, nature and play. Set in the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains, families with children ages 5-12 are encouraged to unplug and reconnect, supported by a community […]

How to Train a Happy Mind

Scott Snibbe

August 28 - 31, 2025

Based on his popular book How to Train a Happy Mind, this three-day retreat with Scott Snibbe offers a relaxed tour of eight meditations that help bring out your best qualities, deepen your relationships, and build a better world.   Each of the retreat’s practices is derived from the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim “stages of the path,” a […]