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  2. Zenshuji Soto Misson - Wikipedia

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    In 1922, a few years after attending the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Rev. Hosen Isobe established the Zenshuji Soto Mission [3] in a Los Angeles apartment. Anti-immigration laws at that time made it extremely difficult for people of Japanese descent to purchase land in the United States.

  3. List of Buddhist temples in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1956: Taizan Maezumi arrives in Los Angeles to serve at the Zenshuji Soto Mission; 1956: The Zen Studies Society is established by Cornelius Crane; 1957: Alan Watts' The Way of Zen is published, the book first popularizing zen with an American audience; 1957: The Cambridge Buddhist Association is founded by John and Elsie Mitchell in Cambridge ...

  5. Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    They are Zenshuji Soto Mission, Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji (usually called Nishi Hongwanji), Higashi Honganji, [55] Koyasan Buddhist Temple, Nichiren Shu Beikoku Betsuin, and the Jodo Shu North America Buddhist Missions. Together they form the Los Angeles Buddhist Temple Federation (Jodo Shinshu temples in Long Beach and near USC are also ...

  6. Category:Buddhism in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist temples in Los Angeles (4 P) ... Zen Center of Los Angeles; Zenshuji Soto Misson This page was last edited on 19 November 2024, at 10:47 (UTC). ...

  7. Taizan Maezumi - Wikipedia

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    In 1956 he was sent to the United States to serve as a priest at the Zenshuji in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, a Japanese-American neighborhood, working part-time at a factory. The Zenshuji Soto Mission consisted of a Japanese-American congregation that placed little emphasis on zazen.

  8. L.A. County's historic General Hospital is set to be ... - AOL

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    General Hospital's 19-story, 1.2 million-square-foot Art Deco building opened in 1934 about a mile and a half from downtown Los Angeles. Due to its proximity to skid row and other underserved ...

  9. Sōyū Matsuoka - Wikipedia

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    He came to be the assistant to the abbot of Zenshuji Temple in Los Angeles, and was later the supervisor at Sokoji Soto Zen Mission (Temple) in San Francisco. Matsuoka established the Chicago Buddhist Temple in 1949 (now the Zen Buddhist Temple of Chicago). In the 1960s he gathered a following of Americans.