About Us

Mission Statement: 
Land of Medicine Buddha is a Center devoted to the transmission of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and values through teaching, meditation and community service, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains, also servicing the Monterey Bay and San Francisco areas. Our organization is based on the Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsong Khapa of Tibet as taught to us by our founder, Lama Thubten Yeshe and our Spiritual Director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

We provide integrated education through which people’s minds and hearts can be transformed into their highest potential for the benefit of others, inspired by an attitude of universal responsibility.

As caretakers of a sacred space we offer facilities, spiritual teachings & services, and an atmosphere supporting people’s inner healing and development to their full potential of infinite wisdom and compassion.

Land of Medicine Buddha, affiliated with the FPMT, Functions as a Tibetan Buddhist Dharma center yet is more than simply a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. It is a beautiful mountain retreat in California's wonderful redwood forest that serves many purposes. We function as a perfect place to come and learn about Tibetan Buddhism from the many great masters that teach here annually as well as our experienced resident teachers, an excellent place for groups to hold their workshops, a relaxing and affordable place to stay in our guest accommodations, and an outstanding place to visit for the day to take a hike in the woods, ride mountain bikes, meditate, or just relax away from the city life.

                   

Hiking Trails -
Situated in 170 acres in Soquel, just south of Santa Cruz, and adjoining 10,000 acres of state forest, our physical location provides a perfect space for guests to relax and connect to their spiritual inner being, and recover from the strains of life.

                   

Meditation Hall & Temple-
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Our Founder and Spiritual Director - 
Lama Thubten Yeshe was the founder and first Spiritual Director of the FPMT. Since Lama Yeshe's passing in 1984, his primary disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, has succeeded him as Spiritual Director of the organization. Both are close disciples of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Lama Tenzin Osel Rinpoche has been recognized as the current incarnation of Lama Yeshe.

           

Biographies
Venerable Lama Thubten Yeshe
Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Tenzin Osel Rinpoche

FPMT Centers - 
Land of Medicine Buddha is part of the FPMT - Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition.  The majority of FPMT centers are organized around the core activities of study and meditation, providing a means for students to receive teachings and meditate upon them. Centers offer weekly meditation sessions, weekend courses and retreats of various lengths. More serious students can enroll in intensive study programs which are based on the commentaries of Atisha, Tsong Khapa and other great masters, following an unbroken lineage from the teachings given by the Buddha 2,500 years ago.

Many centers have resident Tibetan lamas and all have qualified students - monks, nuns, or lay people - who function as teachers. Most centers have retreat facilities. Some are set up specifically for retreat and have lamas in residence for guidance. Some centers have resident communities to provide facilities for study and meditation. Community living is an opportunity to practice intensively among fellow Buddhists and provides one with the opportunity to serve others.

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Land of Medicine Buddha is a sacred space: a place dedicated to healing and renewing the heart. In this unique environment, where redwoods, oak, squirrel, wild turkeys, deer and the song of birds abound, you can enjoy fine walking and biking trails, be still with nature in the meadow, merge with the primordial silence of the enchanted forest, admire the beauty of the superb temple and meditation hall, unwind in the sauna, swim in the heated pool, browse the library, turn one of three beautiful prayer wheels, relax in an elegantly-fitted modern bedroom, take time to restore your inner strength and find a new depth of peace.

We are a center devoted to healing and developing loving-kindness. Situated in 85 acres in Soquel, a few miles south of Santa Cruz, and adjoining 10,000 acres of state forest, our physical location provides the space for guests to relax and recover from the strains of life. Friends come back month after month, year after year.

This extraordinary facility is complemented by stimulating and inspiring programs led by some of the finest teachers in the world. Meditation is taught regularly to help access the ever-present stillness, clarity and love existing within our hearts. Simple yet profound, life-changing universal truths are introduced to help us experience the deepest, authentic peace and satisfaction-a heart and mind relaxed and open, transformed through loving-kindness born from wisdom.

You are welcome to visit Land of Medicine Buddha at any time to participate in our workshops, courses and retreats, or just to get away from things. We are also available for group rental.

Stay connected. Join us. We welcome you to partner us in our vision to implement a new momentum of healing and universal education based on the essential truths of wisdom, loving-kindness and compassion.

Phone: (831) 462-8383
Fax: (831) 476-0188
email: LMB@medicinebuddha.org