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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 ...
The Houston Zen Center practices Sōtō Zen Buddhism. [39] The Myoken-Ji Temple, a Nichiren Buddhist temple, is located in proximity to the University of Houston . As of 2011, it is led by Rev. Myokei Caine-Barrett, who was born in Kawasaki , Japan , in Greater Tokyo . [ 39 ]
Anne Carolyn Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma) is an American Tibetologist who is a professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas and co-founding director and resident teacher at Dawn Mountain, a Tibetan temple, community center and research institute.
In 2009, he was appointed Vice Abbot of Chung Tai Chan Monastery and became dean of academic affairs at the Chung Tai Buddhist Institute. Jian Tan was appointed abbot of the Zen Center in March 2012. He has vowed to propagate Buddhism in the United States through community outreach among English speakers.
American Bodhi Center, a non-sectarian Buddhist monastery located in Houston. [ 81 ] Jade Buddha Temple , a non-sectarian Buddhist monastery located in Houston.
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.
Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission (Japanese) in Honalo, Hawaii – on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places So Shim Sa Zen Center (Korean) in Plainfield, New Jersey This is a list of Buddhist temples , monasteries , stupas , and pagodas in the United States for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location.
Dennis Hirota is a professor in the Department of Shin Buddhism at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. He was born in Berkeley, California in 1946 and received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley. In 2008, he was a visiting professor of Buddhism [1] at Harvard Divinity School where his studies focused on the Buddhist monk Shinran. [2]