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Tu Vien Kim Cang

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 11 December 2013.

Phone: 770-322-0712
Email: kimcangtuvien@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.kimcang.com

History

Abbot Thich Hanh Dat came to Atlanta from Florida in 1993 to serve the local Vietnamese community. The temple was built the same year. Rev. Quang came to the temple in 1998 from Houston, Texas. The temple is located in a largely African-American area and has faced some opposition when trying to obtain permits from the county to continue...

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Massacre at Buddhist Temple Remembered 10 Years Later

August 12, 2001

Source: The Arizona Republic

On August 12, 2001, The Arizona Republic reported that "the shocking slaughter of [nine people, including six Buddhist monks] in August 1991 by two Valley teenagers was the worst mass murder in Arizona since the Indian wars before statehood in 1912. But time, aided perhaps by the power of Buddhist philosophy, has done its healing work in the West Valley community of Wat Promkunaram...The monks say that they won't forget what happened 10 years ago, but that their Buddhist philosophy dissuades them from worldly emotions such...

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Chinese Ancestral Portraits on Display at the Sackler Museum

August 10, 2001

Source: The New York Times

On August 10, 2001, The New York Times reported the exhibit in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery entitled "Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits." The nearly 40 paintings in the exhibit are "18th- and 19th-century depictions of the court elite of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911)...China's [ancient] ancestor cult, is based on the ideal of the infinitely perpetuated nuclear family...As a medium of direct contact between the living and the dead, the ancestor portrait was periodically installed on a family altar or in...

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Chua Khanh Anh

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 26 January 2005.

Phone: 626-350-5183

Tu Vien Chon Khong

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 17 December 2013.

Phone: 808-373-4608

Ngoc Vien Monastery

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 3 October 2001.

Phone: 714-554-7936 [office], 714-554-8039 [office]

Chua Van Hanh

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 21 September 2015.

Phone: 206-722-5305

Chua Phat An

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 25 March 2013.

Contact Information

Address: 3854 South West Street, Wichita, KS 67217

To Dinh Tu Hieu

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 26 January 2005.

Phone: 310-719-7193

Phay Quang Tu

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 3 October 2001.

Contact Information

Address: 312 Gregory St., Fairfield, CA 94533

Chua Bo De Buddhist Monastery

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 23 March 2013.

Contact Information

Address: 114-20 South 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147

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