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Siong Lim Temple, also known as Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery (traditional Chinese: 蓮山雙林寺; simplified Chinese: 莲山双林寺), is a Buddhist monastery located in Toa Payoh, Singapore, next to the Pan Island Expressway.
The Buddhist Temple of Chicago (BTC) was founded in October 1944 by Gyomay Kubose, [1] [2] a minister of the Higashi Honganji branch of the Jōdo Shinshū ("True Pure Land School") sect, along with several laypeople who had been released from the Japanese American internment camps.
Toa Payoh, in Hokkien, translates as "big swamp" (with toa meaning "big" and payoh meaning "swamp"). The Malay word for swamp is paya. It is the Chinese equivalent of Paya Lebar, which translates to "big swamp land". Toa Payoh's old Chinese name, was known as Ang Chiang San (alternatively An Xiang Shan) or "burial hill". The area was called as ...
Buddhist Temple of Chicago; C. Chicago Zen Center; D. Daiyuzenji This page was last edited on 26 August 2021, at 11:12 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Buddhist Temple of Chicago, was founded in October 1944 of the Jōdo Shinshū ("True Pure Land School") of Higashi Hongan-ji ("Shin Buddhism") by those that had been released from Japanese-American internment camps. Chicago Illinois Temple, the thirty-fifth temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Daiyuzenji is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.. Daiyuzenji began in 1982 as the Illinois betsuin (branch temple) of Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen headquarters temple founded in 1979 in Honolulu, Hawaii by Omori Sogen Roshi (1904-1994), a successor in the Tenryu-ji line of Rinzai Zen.
Gyomay Kubose (June 21, 1905 [1] –March 29, 2000), born Masao Kubose was a Japanese-American Buddhist teacher. In 1944, after leaving the Heart Mountain internment camp, [2] he founded the Chicago Buddhist Church, later renamed the Buddhist Temple of Chicago. [3] [4]
He came to be the assistant to the abbot of Zenshuji Temple in Los Angeles, and was later the supervisor at Sokoji Soto Zen Mission (Temple) in San Francisco. Matsuoka established the Chicago Buddhist Temple in 1949 (now the Zen Buddhist Temple of Chicago). In the 1960s he gathered a following of Americans.