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The Sugar Land Quan Âm is a cast concrete statue in Chùa Việt Nam (English: Vietnamese Buddhist Center) in Sugar Land, Texas, just outside of Houston. The sculpture depicts the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara in female form standing on a lotus pedestal. She may also be commonly known by her Chinese name Guanyin.
This is a list of Buddhist temples, ... Phật Tích Vạn Hạnh Temple (Vietnamese), Raleigh, ... Jade Buddha Temple, Houston; Maria Kannon Zen Center, ...
The first center, Buddha's Light Temple (佛光寺), was completed in 1984 in the Almeda area of southeastern Houston. However, the Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, and other Asian communities were largely closer to the Bellaire area of south-west Houston, and in 1989, the Jade Buddha Temple was constructed in that area to be closer to the core ...
He was ordained as a novice monk in October 2006 at Phat Phap Buddhist Temple in St. Petersburg, Florida. After one full year, he became a fully ordained bhikkhu at Buu Mon Buddhist Temple in Port Arthur, Texas. Bhante Kassapa Bhikkhu is currently a resident monk at Buu Mon Buddhist Temple, a Theravada Vietnamese temple in Port Arthur, Texas.
The temple serves as a community center for the local Vietnamese community and a few non-Vietnamese. It holds regular services on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 11:00 a.m and other special Buddhist ceremonies such as Vesak. The temple also provides Vietnamese language and the Buddhist teaching classes for children on every Sunday. [1]
Quang Lê is a devout Buddhist and performs at many Temples around the world. A major event which Quang Lê frequently participates in is “Lễ Hội Quan Âm” at the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple in Houston, Texas. Quang Lê also gets invites from overseas Temple such as in France and Australia to perform.
The community is predominantly Vietnamese, however, the temple is often visited by Chinese, Thais, Cambodians, Sri Lankans, Indians, and Westerners. Chanting services are conducted in Vietnamese. There are 3000-5000 Vietnamese Buddhists in Austin. There are about 200 students in the Vietnamese language and culture classes each week.
The Vietnamese coming into Houston in the 2000s and beyond came to find education and jobs. [13]In 2005 Houston had 32,000 Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, making it the second largest Vietnamese American community in the United States of any city after that of San Jose, California. [14]