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Hsi Lai Temple is a branch of Fo Guang Shan, a Buddhist organization from Taiwan. It is the order's first overseas branch temple and serves as the North American regional headquarters for Fo Guang Shan. Hsi Lai Temple was the site of the founding of Buddha's Light International Association, established in 1991.
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
In 1922, a few years after attending the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Rev. Hosen Isobe established the Zenshuji Soto Mission [3] in a Los Angeles apartment. Anti-immigration laws at that time made it extremely difficult for people of Japanese descent to purchase land in the United States.
In 1920, the temple was moved to a larger building on Central Avenue. A tree was planted in front of the new building by Koyasan Temple members to commemorate the move. The Aoyama Tree is a 60 by 70-foot Moreton Bay Fig tree (Ficus macrophylla) and notable landmark in Little Tokyo was given historical status by the Los Angeles City Council in ...
The temple is associated with Fo Guang Shan, a monastic organization from Taiwan led by Venerable Hsing Yun that claims over one million members worldwide, and with Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles. Guang Ming is home to several resident monastics , and boasts a vast main shrine room, auxiliary meditation room, vegetarian cafeteria, tea room, gift ...
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Founded as Temple B’nai Israel of Pasadena in 1921, the community that would become PJTC bought the Spanish-style building on North Altadena Drive just north of East Washington Boulevard in 1941 ...
Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple: October 24, 1986: 109–119 N. Central Ave.; 355–369 E. 1st St. Little Tokyo: Buddhist temple built 1924–25 designed by Edgar Cline; one of the first religious structures serving the city's Asian population; later became the Japanese American National Museum. 317: Young Apartments: January 7, 1987