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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.
In the year 1860, this temple was established as a very small temple at the junction of Killiney road and Orchard road in Singapore. Later in the year 1921, due to traffic regulations, the temple was reconstructed on Somerset road. And again in the year 1982, the temple was reconstructed at the present place in Toa Payoh.
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 ...
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.
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.
A Chicago temple may refer to: . BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Chicago, is a Hindu place of worship of the denomination of the Swaminarayan branch of Hinduism.; Baháʼí House of Worship (Wilmette, Illinois), in a suburb of Chicago, the second Baháʼí House of Worship ever constructed and the oldest one still standing.
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]