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The DRBA logo The mountain gate to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, the headquarters of DRBA.. The Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (shortened to DRBA, Chinese: 法界佛教總會, PY: Fajie Fojiao Zonghui, formerly known as the Sino-American Buddhist Association) is an international, non-profit Buddhist organization founded by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua in 1959 to bring the orthodox ...
Hsuan Hua planned to create a major center for world Buddhism, and an international orthodox monastery for the purpose of elevating moral standards and raising people's awareness. The city comprises 488 acres (197 hectares) of land, of which 80 acres (32 hectares) are developed. The rest of the land includes meadows, orchards, and forests.
The Rosicrucian Park was established in 1927 by Harvey Spencer Lewis.It grew from one single lot to a 5-acre city block. [1] The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum was built in 1932, the Planetarium in 1936, the research library opened in June 1939.
The largest is the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, a multinational organization based in Rosicrucian Park, San Jose, California, US. Paul Foster Case, founder of the Builders of the Adytum as a successor to the Golden Dawn, published The true and invisible Rosicrucian Order, [10] elaborating the Qabalistic basis and interpretation of the Fame and ...
New Camaldoli has founded two daughter communities, Incarnation Monastery in Berkeley, California, near the Graduate Theological Union, in 1979 and the Monastery of the Risen Christ in San Luis Obispo, California, in 2014. [10] [11] [12]
Two other temples were immediately "born": the Hollywood Self-Realization Church of all Religions and the SRF San Diego Temple. [14] In 1948, Yogananda dedicated the Golden Lotus Tower along the nearby highway, crowned with golden, lotus-shaped ornaments similar to those originally seen on the Golden Lotus Temple.
In 1974, the government of San Jose instituted the Rincon de los Esteros Redevelopment Plan, to develop the Rincon de los Esteros district into a major tech hub for Silicon Valley. [15] In 1998, the city established a specific plan for Rincon South, which has since been a separate neighborhood from the rest of Rincon. [16] [17] [18]
The name is a corruption of Tasajera, a Spanish-American word derived from an indigenous Esselen word, which means "place where meat is hung to dry". [4] [5]The 126-acre mountain property surrounding the Tassajara Hot Springs was purchased by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 for the below-market price [6] of $300,000 [5] from Robert and Anna Beck. [7]