Sakya Thron Holders
about us
Bay Area Pal Tsechen Ling is a nonprofit organization originally started by several families getting together at Berkeley Marina Park to celebrate His Holiness 41st Sakya Trizin’s birthday back in 2007. Our official name, Bay Area Pal Tsechen Ling was given to us by His Holiness in 2010 and since then, we worked with several other nonprofit organizations in Bay Area to attain common goals of promoting and preserving Tibetan Buddhism of Sakya Lineage in our area. We organized several major initiations lead by His Holiness 41st Sakya Trizin in past several years. With growing Tibetan population in Bay Area, we realized that we wanted to form a small dharma community that will promote and sustain Sakya Lineage in our day and age so in late 2015, we elected our first board members and applied for nonprofit organization. Our application was approved for NGO status in 2016. Since then, we have been observing major Sakya Lineage events at various devotees’ house followed by dinner sponsored by host family.
Bay Area Pal Tsechen Ling in Richmond CA
Our Mission
To sustain the spiritual values for its members who follow the teachings of Buddha as passed down through the founding masters and lineage of masters in the Sakya order of Tibetan Buddhism.
To maintain and promote a traditional cultural heritage based on the Buddhist tenets of harmlessness, altruism, generosity, patience, meditation, and all the wisdom teaching of the Buddha Shakyamuni among its members, and to provide cultural resources to other members of the greater community where there is need and receptivity.
Khenpo Sonam Dhondup with Avitrita Vajra Sakya Rinpoche
visisting Khenpo
Khenpo Sonam Dhondup la has been our resident Khenpo and leading major events and activities since the purchase of our center. We have been very fortunate and blessed to have him lead us and consult for religous advise.
