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Deer Park Monastery meditation hall (Vietnamese) in Escondido, California Hsi Lai Temple (Chinese) in Hacienda Heights, California – the largest Buddhist temple in the United States See also: List of sanghas in Central Valley, California and List of sanghas in San Diego County, California
Chuang Yen Monastery, a non-sectarian Buddhist monastery located in Kent. Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji, a Rinzai monastery located in Livingston Manor. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in Woodstock. New York Mahayana Temple, a non-sectarian Buddhist monastery located in South Cairo.
One of the six "Nyingmapa mother monasteries." Drepung: Lhasa Gelug 1416 Home monastery of the Dalai Lama and founded by Jamyang Choje. Drepung was historically the largest monastery in Tibet as well as the largest in the world until the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China: Drigung: Lhasa Prefecture Kagyu: 1179, 1980s 1960s
Sravasti Abbey is the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery for Western monks and nuns in the U.S., established in Washington State by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron in 2003. It is situated on 300 acres of forest and meadows, 11 miles (18 km) outside of Newport, Washington , near the Idaho state line.
Pages in category "Buddhist monasteries in the United States" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Deer Park Corp. is in the process of building a new $2.7M temple project [3] to house an extensive collection of Tibetan art and artifacts, provide greater capacity for group meetings and educational sessions, continue the expansion of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States by training a successive string of new monks, and to continue the ...
Sravasti Abbey, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery for Western nuns and monks in the U.S., was established in Washington State by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron in 2003. Whilst practicing in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, Sravasti Abbey monastics ordain in the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya. [1]
After the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China and thousands of Tibetan monasteries were destroyed or damaged (mainly during the 1959 Tibetan uprising and the Cultural Revolution of 1966–1976), and many Gelug monks, including the 14th Dalai Lama fled the country to India as part of the Tibetan diaspora. The three major Gelug ...