Become a Supporting Member
Monthly Membership: For $65 a month you can become a Supporting Member of Dharmapala Kadampa Buddhist Center. This includes all formal Program Classes offered monthly.
Becoming a member is a great way to support the Center and brings a special sense of satisfaction and reward. Your membership helps to support Dharmapala Buddhist Center and all the programs it offers, such as General Program classes, introductory classes, day courses, retreats, the Foundation Program, and all our other activities.
Every time you give to a Dharma Center, you are creating the cause to help someone else increase their happiness and you are creating the cause to increase your own happiness. Not just temporary happiness, but lasting happiness, because happiness is a state of mind and therefore can only come from a result of training the mind. When you give to an organization whose sole purpose is to increase the happiness of others, you improve your own mind and help countless other living beings to do the same.
By making donations and monthly pledges you help to support:
- General Operating Fund: cost of renting the Center space, equipment, advertising, business expenses
- Meditation Room: beautiful statues of Buddhas, paintings, shrine offerings, chair and cushions for students, sound system and chanted prayers
- Bookstore/Gift Shop: books, Buddhist personal items such as malas (prayer beads), offering bowls, book covers, greeting cards, statues
- Publicity: newspaper ads, brochures, website
- Center Development Fund: to go towards the purchase of our own Center building
If you wish to become a Member, kindly contact Deborah Schimdt-Guecia or Wren Starkey
"If we give money to a Dharma Center there will be great meaning, the merit will increase for as long as the Center exists. As the Center grows and flourishes, bringing happiness to more and more people, the power of our offering will increase." -Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso