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In the early 1980s, the Midwest Buddhist Temple Taiko group helped start the Ho Daiko Group [4] group at the Seabrook Buddhist Temple, the Soh Daiko Group [5] at the New York Buddhist Church, [6] and the Twin-Cities Taiko Group which changed their name to the Kogen Taiko Group, [7] a part of the Twin-Cities Buddhist Association in Minnesota.
Minnesota Buddhist Vihara is a Theravada Buddhist temple in the state of Minnesota. It was established in 2004 by Venerable Witiyala Seewalie Maha Thera, who is also the current Abbot of the Vihara and the Deputy Chief Sangha Nayaka of North America, [1] appointed by the Malwatta Chapter in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Its 10th anniversary was celebrated ...
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. All of the Buddhist Mission's leadership, along with almost the entire Japanese American population, had been interned during World ...
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The BCA counts over 60 affiliated churches and some 12,000 members within its ranks today. [3] [4] During World War II, Japanese Buddhist communities faced suspicion and discrimination as many Buddhist leaders were targeted by the government, as all mainland Japanese-Americans were incarcerated for the duration of the war. Despite the ...
The Ambassadors for Respect is a program that brings violence prevention skills, especially against people with disabilities, into Minnesota and Wisconsin classrooms.
This gave birth to the nickname of the region, the "Twin Cities" metropolitan area. A view of the town of Tornio , which forms a twin city with Haparanda . Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time. There are no formal ...
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