Deer Park Buddhist Center and Monastery is devoted to ensuring that Tibetan Buddhist teachings and the monastic way of life, as well as Tibetan culture, remain available as a vibrant part of our common human legacy.
Deer Park is located amidst the rolling hills and fields of Oregon, Wisconsin, south of Madison. A large house provides living quarters and offices. An annex building, completed in 1995, provides additional living quarters for the monastic community and visitors as well as for the community.
Deer Park’s mission is to provide a stable foundation in America’s heartland to continue Tibetan Buddhism’s unique contribution to human culture and wisdom, by way of:
Supporting people’s moral and spiritual growth, as a means to bring about temporary and lasting peace for them individually and throughout the world.
Educating, training, and inspiring local and international monastic and lay students in the philosophy and practice of Tibetan Buddhism.
Serving as a monastery where Tibetans and non-Tibetans alike can observe and experience Buddhism as a complete living tradition in a tranquil rural setting that is particularly conducive to the contemplative monastic lifestyle.
Geshe Sopa is recognized worldwide as one of the great living spiritual masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is particularly renowned for maintaining the high standards of scholarly learning while personally embodying the qualities of humility, tolerance and compassion.