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Burmese Buddhist Temple Newsletter, vol. 21, no. 2, January 2007. Ong, Y. D. (2005). Buddhism in Singapore – A Short Narrative History. Singapore: Skylark Publications. ISBN 978-981-05-2740-2. Than, Mya (2001). In Commemoration of the Grand Opening of Burmese Buddhist Temple. Singapore: Burmese Buddhist Temple.
In 2001, TBA purchased 515 acres of land in Waller County, a 49-mile / 55-minute drive from the Jade Buddha Temple in Houston. The official grand opening of the American Bodhi Center was held on May 2, 2009, the 2553th birthday of Shakyamuni Buddha. [ 9 ]
Singapore Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng is a cultural organisation and columbarium based in Bishan, Singapore with beginnings since 1870. Located at Bishan Lane off Bishan Road, Peck San Theng presently operates a columbarium, two Chinese temples, and ancestral worship services tailoring towards the requirements as well as traditions, customs and beliefs of a cosmopolitan community.
The Sri Meenakshi Temple Society was established in 1977. The land for the temple, a five acre site, was acquired between 1976 and 1978. A plan for the site was drawn up by Ranjit Banerjee, a professor of architecture at the University of Houston. The temple's first permanent structure was a Ganesha temple.
The temple was established in 1918 when the incense ashes (Chinese: 香火) of the original Green Dragon Temple at Han River, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China was brought over to Singapore by Wang Dong Qing and worshipped at his home. [1] In 1930, a temple was established at Pasir Panjang's 7th Milestone for public worship to Ang Chee Sia Ong. [1]
The Chinese labourers, who settled in the area, built a temple in 1847 which still exists known as Goh Chor Tua Pek Kong Temple (梧槽大伯公廟), with the area having one of the last free-standing wayang stage in Singapore that was built in 1906 by Tan Boo Liat, a wealthy Hokkien Peranakan philanthropist and community leader.
The Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple is one of the most prominent and widely visited Buddhist temples in Singapore, [5] often referred to as the Temple of 1,000 Lights.It features a 15-meter high statue of a seated Buddha, which weighs nearly 300 tons, as well as many smaller Buddha images and murals depicting the life of Gautama Buddha.
Located at 2 Beatty Lane in Singapore, the temple was registered in 2001 by Singha Rinpoche, as instructed by his teacher Geshe Lama Konchog and named after the monastery of the 14th Dalai Lama as ‘Thekchen Choling (Singapore)’. The address of Thekchen Choling used to be Ji Gong Temple, a heritage site in Singapore.