GPI-Tech is a Major Tibetan Cultural Educational Program and WLF Initiative
  Through diligent work and the cultivation of close relationships with the leaders of the Tibetan monastic systems, The Great Perfection Institute of Technology (GPI-Tech) is a cultural program that has grown to wide-scale global recognition amongst the Tibetan population.
GPI-Tech is an institute for the preservation of Tibetan high culture and the empowerment of individuals within their culture to apply their wisdom and compassion to the problems facing the world today via business and technology.
The use of technology, the exact precision required in the field of computer science in particular, provides these spiritual practitioners with the means to perfect their training in a manner never seen before in the history of their civilization. As it turns out, the processes of software development and organizational management combine with and develop the mind in a manner similar to that of the different methods of Tibetan spiritual training. This provides a highly-attractive lifestyle for young Tibetans to find new meaning, develop self-esteem, and lead empowered lives on their pathway to enlightenment, while at the same time, bringing great benefits to the modern world.
Since the founding of GPI-Tech in 1998, the commencement of the training of Tibetan monks and nuns in the year 2000, and the wide scale publication of these concepts within their communities, many Tibetans have been developing the technology and business skills that are now enabling this long-term vision for the monastic system to be fully realized.
GPI-Tech’s projects are as amazing as placing accomplished ex-monks and lay people in white collar jobs of influence, to building temples, mandalas, and other expressions of wisdom in the emerging 'virtual worlds', to providing real-world software applications that solve globally-pressing problems, all enabling these sincere practitioners to live in ever-increasingly-higher states of mind.
Additional funding and the support of site selection for the location of facilities to organize individuals from an estimated worldwide 2500 Tibetan cultural centers to collaborate, present unique opportunities for the right philanthropists to develop tremendous ‘merit’.
European Campus
Site selection is taking place for a flagship campus. The Tibetan cultural process for this is fascinating:
- A potential location is initially chosen from a reputable vision
- Project stakeholders travel to the location to see if it could in fact be the right spot for the project
- A small structure is constructed at the location to see how the place works for the project
- If the place works well, the small structure is expanded over time to the full vision
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This process ensures the success of the project in the 'right' place.
View sample GPI-Tech architectural drawings and plans:
Architectual design and presentation by:
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 Douglas P Luna AIA and Johnathan P Kawamura
associated architect designer
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If you would like further information about supporting the GPI-Tech program, please contact WLF for further information.
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