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Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple: October 24, 1986: ... former site of the first Nishi Honganji Buddhist Temple Board of Trade Building: 111 W. 7th St.
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 ...
Prior to the establishment of the Institute of Buddhist Studies as an accredited graduate school in 1985, BCA ministers have historically been all male and ethnically Japanese, trained at Nishi Hongan-ji in Japan, but there are now a substantial number of female, and non-Japanese ministers. In 2022, the BCA appointed their first female ...
Nishi Hongan-ji (西本願寺) is a Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple in the Shimogyō ward of Kyoto, Japan. It serves as the head temple of the sub-sect Honganji-ha . It is one of two Jōdo Shinshū temple complexes in Kyoto, the other being Higashi Hongan-ji , which is the head temple of the sub-sect Ōtani-ha .
The BCA is an affiliate of Japan's Nishi Hongwanji, a sect of Jōdo Shinshū, which is, in turn, a form of Pure Land Buddhism. Tracing its roots to the Young Men's Buddhist Association founded in San Francisco at the end of the 19th century and the Buddhist Mission of North America founded in 1899, [ 17 ] it took its current form in 1944.
The Hongwanji Temple in Kyoto confers betsuin status to their temple in Los Angeles, which is renamed as the Hompa Honwanji Los Angeles Betsuin. [ 30 ] 1932 – 1932 Summer Olympics held.
Hongan-ji (本願寺, Temple of the Primal Vow), also archaically romanized as Hongwanji, is the collective name of the largest school of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism (which further sub-divides into the Nishi and Higashi branches). 'Hongan-ji' may also refer to any one of several actual temple buildings associated with the sect. Nishi Honganji ...
The BWA in the United States is an auxiliary organization of the Buddhist Churches of America, the mainland United States branch of the Nishi Hongwanji-ha. After World War II, Lady Yoshiko Ohtani (1918–2000) the spouse of the 23rd Monshu, Kosho Ohtani, [1] visited many temples in Japan and around the world and worked to revive the association ...