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Hsi Lai Temple. Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple (Chinese: 佛光山西來寺; pinyin: Fóguāngshān Xīlái Sì) is a mountain monastery in the northern Puente Hills, Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County, California. The name Hsi Lai means "coming west". Hsi Lai Temple is a branch of Fo Guang Shan, a Buddhist organization from Taiwan.
e. Fo Guang Shan (FGS) (Chinese: 佛光山; pinyin: Fó guāng shān; lit. 'Buddha's Light Mountain') is an international Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist organization and monastic order based in Taiwan that practices Humanistic Buddhism whose roots are traced to the Linji school of Chan Buddhism. The headquarters, Fo Guang Shan Monastery, is ...
The Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum (Chinese: 佛光山佛陀紀念館; pinyin: Fóguāngshān Fótuó jìniànguǎn), formerly known as the Buddha Memorial Center, is a Mahāyāna Buddhist cultural, religious, and educational museum located in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The museum is affiliated with Fo Guang Shan, one of Taiwan's largest ...
Hsi Lai Temple is a monastery in the hills of Hacienda Heights. The architecture, statues and gardens resemble the buildings and grounds of Chinese monasteries of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The ...
Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, the second-largest Buddhist temple and monastery in the Western hemisphere. The Asian American influx into the southwestern portion of the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, grew rapidly when Chinese immigrants began settling in Monterey Park in the 1970s.
Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Xīlái Dàxué. University of the West (UWest) is a private Buddhist university in Rosemead, California. It was founded in 1990 [1] by Hsing Yun, [2] founder of the Taiwan-based Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan [2] and Hsi Lai Temple, [2] the North American order headquarters. The school offered its first class 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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