The Vajrasattva Practice is for mental and physical purification. It is the most powerful purification practice in daily life. Vajrasattva is the deity that embodies the purification powers of all the Buddhas. If one practices sincerely with correct motivation, all the negatives accumulated in this life and previous lives can be removed.

In order to purify negative actions completely, one needs four powers or strengths: the power of support, the power of regret, the power of antidote, and the power of resolution. Purification requires a support for us to express our remorse, make our confession and repair the effects of our past negative actions.

Vajrasattva practices are common to all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism and are used to purify obscurations. As such, Vajrasattva practice is an essential element of Tibetan Buddhist practice. Read more on Vajrasattva practice here

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.
Your contribution for the monastery project is greatly appreciated. Your generosity will allow for the development of this unique facility for the Gyuto Monastery and its local community of students and supporters.

Thank you for your support of the Gyuto Monastery!

In the International System of Units (SI), mass is measured in kilograms (kg). The gram (g) is 1⁄1000 of a kilogram. The gram was first introduced in 1795, with a definition based on the density of water (so that at the temperature of melting ice, one cubic centimeter of water would have a mass of one gram; while the meter at the time was defined as the 10,000,000th part of the distance from the Earth’s equator to the North Pole). Since 1889, the kilogram has been defined as the mass of the international prototype kilogram, and as such is independent of the meter, or the properties of water. In October 2011, the 24th General Conference on Weights and Measures resolved to “take note of the intention” to redefine the kilogram in terms of the Planck constant, scheduled for 2014.

Other units are accepted for use in SI:

The tonne (t) is equal to 1000 kg.
The electronvolt (eV) is primarily a unit of energy, but because of the mass-energy equivalence it can also function as a unit of mass. In this context it is denoted eV/c2, or simply as eV. The electronvolt is common in particle physics.
The atomic mass unit (u) is defined so that a single carbon-12 atom has a mass of 12 u; 1 u is approximately 1.66×10−27 kg.[note 1] The atomic mass unit is convenient for expressing the masses of atoms and molecules.

Outside the SI system, a variety of different mass units are used, depending on context, such as the slug (sl), the pound (lb), the Planck mass (mP), and the solar mass.

In normal situations, the weight of an object is proportional to its mass, which usually makes it unproblematic to use the same unit for both concepts. However, the distinction between mass and weight becomes important for measurements with a precision better than a few percent (because of slight differences in the strength of the Earth’s gravitational field at different places), and for places far from the surface of the Earth, such as in space or on other planets.

A mass can sometimes be expressed in terms of length. The mass of a very small particle may be identified with its inverse Compton wavelength (1 cm−1 ≈ 3.52×10−41 kg). The mass of a very large star or black hole may be identified with its Schwarzschild radius (1 cm ≈ 6.73×1024 kg).