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Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, Santa Rosa. Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre. Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Carmel Valley. Walnut Grove Buddhist Church, Walnut Grove. Wat Buddhanusorn, Fremont. Wat Mongkolratanaram, Berkeley. Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, near Idyllwild. Zen Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles. Zenshuji Soto Mission, Los Angeles.
It is one of the first Chan Buddhist temples in the United States, and one of the largest Buddhist communities in the Western Hemisphere. The city is situated in Talmage, California, a rural community in southeastern Mendocino County about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Ukiah and 110 miles (180 km) north of San Francisco. It was one of the first ...
List of Buddhist temples. Borobudur temple at Magelang, Indonesia was the largest Buddhist Temple in the world and was one of the 7 wonders by UNESCO World Heritage Site. Brahmavihara-Arama temple at Bali, Indonesia was the Buddhist Temple with traditional Balinese influence. Maya Devi temple at Lumbini, Nepal was the birthplace of Buddha.
Another US Buddhist institution is Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California. Hsi Lai is the American headquarters of Fo Guang Shan, a modern Buddhist group in Taiwan. Hsi Lai was built in 1988 at a cost of $10 million and is often described as the largest Buddhist temple in the Western hemisphere.
Chuang Yen Monastery (Chinese: 莊嚴寺; pinyin: Zhuāngyán sì) is a Buddhist temple situated on 225 acres (91 ha) in Carmel, Putnam County, New York, in the United States. The temple is home to the largest indoor statue of a Buddha (Vairocana) in the Western Hemisphere. [1] The name "Chuang Yen" means "Majestically Adorned".
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]
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. Buddhist temples in the United States by populated place (4 C) Buddhist temples in the United States by state (17 C) Stupas in the United States (1 C, 2 P)
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