Plan Your Visit

Open by Appointment   If you’d like to visit us, please contact us in advance to make an appointment so that we can arrange for a staff member to meet you. You can reach us via email at or leave a message at (510) 809-1000. ...

Part-Time Opportunities

Part-Time Volunteer Opportunities Want to learn Buddhist practices and philosophy? Interested in being part of a Buddhist community? Looking to enter a meaningful path of inner growth and inquiry? Come join the volunteer team at Nyingma Institute, a dynamic non-profit...

Full Time Residential Work-Practice

A Volunteer Community  We transform our lives through self-inquiry and applied meditation, based on ancient, grounded methods for working with mind, body, and senses. We practice a way of life that is integrated, meaningful, and devoted to helpful activity as a...

Room Rentals

Looking to study and focus? Quiet Rooms 1 Block from UCB Campus in a vegetarian meditation center with a peaceful garden Charming rooms in exceptionally quiet, vegetarian environment, perfect for graduate students, visiting scholars, and serious students, starting at...

Nyingma Net

Practicing Together with NyingmaNet Visit NyingmaNet Website April 8, 2020 Dear Friends of Nyingma, In these uncertain times, it seems especially important to practice together, find new ways to keep in touch with each other near and far, and deepen our understanding....