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The Zu Lai Temple (Chinese: 如來寺, Portuguese: Templo Zu Lai; lit. 'Tathāgata Temple') is a Buddhist temple in Cotia, São Paulo, Brazil. It is the largest Buddhist temple in South America with 10,000 square meters of constructed area, inside an area of approximately 150,000 square meters. [1] It is a branch temple of the Fo Guang Shan ...
The city is situated in Talmage, California, a rural community in southeastern Mendocino County about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Ukiah and 110 miles (180 km) north of San Francisco. It was one of the first Buddhist monasteries built in the United States. The temple follows the Guiyang school of Chan Buddhism, one of the Five Houses of Chan.
Fresno Buddhist Temple (Mrauk Oo Dhamma) Green Gulch Farm, Muir Beach; Hartford Street Zen Center, San Francisco; Hazy Moon Zen Center, Los Angeles; Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights; Koyasan Buddhist Temple, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles; Metta Forest Monastery, Valley Center; Mount Baldy Zen Center, Mount San Antonio; Pao Fa Temple, Irvine
The BLIA emblem. The Buddha's Light International Association (Chinese: 國際佛光會; pinyin: Guójì fóguāng huì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kok-chè Hu̍t-kong ē), commonly known as BLIA, is a lay Buddhist organization.
The first Buddhist temple in America was built in 1853 in San Francisco by the Sze Yap Company, a Chinese American fraternal society. [11] Another society, the Ning Yeong Company, built a second in 1854; by 1875, there were eight temples, and by 1900 approximately 400 Chinese temples on the west coast of the United States, most of them ...
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Zu Lai Temple (lit. Tathāgata Temple) in Cotia, Brazil is the largest Buddhist temple in South America. In Brazil, the first Tibetan Buddhist center, the Tarthang Tulku Nyingma Center, was founded in 1988 in São Paulo. [70]
The temple was originally located on Grant Avenue before moving to its present location on Becket Street in 1996. [2] It is not to be confused with the Tin How Temple two blocks to the south, which is likewise dedicated to Matsu (carrying one of her popular names in Cantonese ), but was founded in 1910 and is the oldest extant Taoist temple in ...