A Contemporary Hermitage Rooted in the Ancient Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
A Living Hermitage for the Modern World
Giao Long Monastery (GLM) is a contemporary Buddhist sanctuary grounded in the ancient Tibetan scholastic tradition. GLM brings together rigorous academic study, contemplative practice, and community service into one integrated path.
We exist for a simple yet profound purpose:
to make authentic Dharma education completely accessible, tuition-free, and open to all beings, regardless of background or circumstance.
Guided by Tibetan lineage-holding Rinpoche-la, Geshe-la, and Khenpo, our monastery preserves the warmth, clarity, and precision of a living tradition while responding to the needs of modern students and practitioners around the world.
Our story
Chairman of Giao Long Monastery
There are people whose lives begin in ordinary places yet unfold in ways that quietly reshape the lives of many. Grand Master Huỳnh Anh Hải is one of those rare individuals a man who spent the first half of his life building businesses and communities in Vietnam, and the second half opening a spiritual path for others throughout the world. Known in Vietnam as a successful entrepreneur, he carried a different calling beneath the surface: a profound and lifelong devotion to the Dharma. Through years of practice, discipline, and guidance from masters of the Tibetan Nyingma lineage, he was recognized as a Lama a bearer of a tradition older than memory, rooted in compassion, insight, and transmission from teacher to student.
Yet he never sought titles. He sought purpose.
That purpose crystallized during his many years of teaching Khí Công Thần Lực Giao Long, a system of internal energy practice designed to heal the body and refine the mind. Students came first for health, but stayed for something deeper: the sense that they were touching a well of quiet strength, clarity, and compassion. Through this work, Grand Master Huỳnh Anh Hải realized that authentic transformation is not personal—it is communal. It grows when shared.
When he later came to the United States, he carried only this intention: to bring the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism, especially the esoteric treasures of the Nyingma tradition, to people who needed it but had no access.
From this intention arose what would become the Giao Long lineage in the West.
He founded the Giao Long Martial & Meditation Institute, followed by a humanitarian platform dedicated to compassionate action. But one vision stood untouched by time: the creation of a monastic and academic sanctuary where students—monastic or lay, Eastern or Western—could study the Dharma freely, without cost, without barriers, without fear of exclusion.
Thus, Giao Long Monastery (GLM) was born not as a monument, but as an offering.
Grand Master Huỳnh Anh Hải envisioned GLM as a place where the rigorous scholastic training of Tibetan Buddhism could meet the needs of modern learners. A place where meditation, philosophy, community service, and internal energy practice could coexist without contradiction. A place where bodhicitta becomes the guiding principle for both spiritual training and social action.
Today, GLM carries this vision forward: a monastery, an academy, a home for seekers, and a hub of compassion-based service for the community.
Through the generosity he inspired and the lineage he carries, Grand Master Huỳnh Anh Hải built not only an institution, but a path one wide enough for anyone to walk.
And his story is still unfolding, because the monastery he founded continues to grow in the hearts of the people it touches.
