We need YOU to continue to grow OUR Center!

Choose one of the Four Immeasurable levels of giving, either annually or monthly!

Land of Medicine Buddha is very fortunate in that we have facilities that allow us to generate an income to cover our regular expenses like mortgage, insurance, and utilities. What our Facility Rental income does not cover are the costs associated with running the Dharma Program. Teacher-in-Residence salaries and expenses, travel expenses and offerings for our Visiting Teachers, and costs associated with outreach in the community.

Friends of LMB pledge regular financial support to the Center. In return, Land of Medicine Buddha offers benefits as outlined below by your level of giving. Your generous monthly or annual donation helps to ensure the financial stability of the Center year round. This enables LMB to host highly qualified teachers-in-residence and incredible visiting teachers on a very regular basis. Without our kind and generous Friends, Land of Medicine Buddha would not be able to schedule such plentiful teachings, pujas, and special events.

Why become a Friend of LMB you might ask?

“A Dharma center which offers practices and education is an extremely important need. It is a very important tool to bring peace in the world, and peace in numberless sentient beings’ minds. Whatever you are able to contribute will benefit not only for peace of this world but for all sentient beings.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Friends with Benefits and Tax Deductions:

Below are listed the benefits offered with each of the four Friend of LMB levels. Of course, the main benefit is a thriving Dharma center and the merit of offering to such a powerful object… scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to read more about the ultimate benefits of offering to the Center from Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Friends may choose to receive tangible benefits (such as discounts in our bookstore) or only non-tangible benefits (such as free drop-in classes). When members receive ONLY non-tangible benefits, the amount contributed is fully tax deductible according to the limits of the law. We are classified as a registered non-profit religious organization, therefore most donations are considered tax deductible. Please consult with your tax advisor to confirm your personal charitable contribution limits. For your tax records, our Federal Tax ID as a 501 c (3) corporation is 77-028-1122.

To claim your contributions as a tax deduction, you may choose to decline the tangible membership benefits during the sign-up process in exchange for a full tax letter.

• Individual $20 / month or $200 year Family $30 / month or $300 / year
• 10% discount at the LMB Bookstore
• Dedication at our daily Medicine Buddha Puja
• FREE attendance in Discovering Buddhism, Basic Program, and Guided Contemplations
• Use of pool/sauna
• Advance notice emails about teachings, special events, and visiting teachers
• Donate Now!

• Individual $50 / month or $500 year Family $60 / month or $600 / year
• 15% discount at the LMB Bookstore
• Dedication at our daily Medicine Buddha Puja
• FREE attendance in Discovering Buddhism, Basic Program, and Guided Contemplations
• Use of pool/sauna
• Advance notice emails about teachings, special events, and visiting teachers
• Donate Now!

• Individual $100 / month or $1000 year Family $250 / month or $1500 / year
• 20% discount at the LMB Bookstore
• Dedication at our daily Medicine Buddha Puja
• FREE attendance in Discovering Buddhism, Basic Program, and Guided Contemplations
• Use of pool/sauna
• Advance notice emails about teachings, special events, and visiting teachers
• Donate Now!

• Individual or Family $500 / month or $5000 / year
• 25% discount at the LMB Bookstore
• Dedication at our daily Medicine Buddha Puja
• FREE attendance in Discovering Buddhism, Basic Program, and Guided Contemplations
• Use of pool/sauna
• Advance notice emails about teachings, special events, and visiting teachers
• Donate Now!

Contact Us… if we can help you in any way to navigate the sign-up process to become a Friend of LMB.

Whatever category of membership you choose, please know how much we appreciate your contribution!

Just in case you need a little more inspiration to become a Friend of LMB, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice to a student in May 2016 (quote courtesy of LYWA):

“…[supporting] the center can be of great help or small help, but it all depends on the person. Helping the center also becomes an offering to Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and by offering to the Buddha—wow, wow, wow, wow, wow…Offering to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha is unbelievable. So you should think like this when you give the money. You should think this is offering to Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Think that it is helping the Sangha, who, of course, do the Vinaya practice of confession practice here—all the Sangha gather here and also there are teachings at the center. So you should think that helping the center is also helping His Holiness the Dalai Lama and helping Lama Yeshe and myself, the small Mickey Mouse’s wishes to be fulfilled. Before I mentioned the benefits of offering to Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, but this is also an offering to the guru. From this you collect the highest amount of merit, the most merit, more than offering to numberless Buddha, Dharma, Sangha and to numberless statues, stupas and scriptures in the ten directions. All that merit becomes small compared with the merit of offering to the guru. No matter how many extensive offerings you make—even filling the whole sky—all that becomes very small compared to offering to the guru. Additionally, this is the most powerful purification, it purifies defilements and negative karma collected from beginningless rebirths. It is the most powerful purification. You should know this. It is the quickest way to achieve realizations, the quickest way to be free from the oceans of samsaric sufferings, and the quickest way to achieve buddhahood, the total cessation of all the obscurations and completion of all the realizations. Even giving one rupee offering to the center has these benefits. Then of course it also has the benefit of preserving the Dharma and helping to spread the Dharma. However, the ultimate point is that this offering is benefiting all the six-realm sentient beings, not only those in your country. The center is used to do practice and any practice done there is for the six-realm sentient beings, to benefit them. Every sadhana or practice starts with the motivation to benefit mother sentient beings, so this means all the six-realm sentient beings and in particular those in your country. Every dollar offer to the center—even one dollar, even the smallest amount of money—has all these benefits, which is received by all sentient beings. So every mosquito, every fish, every pitiful chicken that is taken on a truck to be killed, every sentient being in numberless universes receives this benefit, as well as every deva, sura and asura. So please think about this and understand this.”