Religious Centers (Archive)

Namgyal Ling Peace Center

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 27 October 2006.

Phone: 207-236-6485
Email: info@namgyal-ling.org

History

During the winter of 2001, two Tibetan monks living in exile in the southern Indian state of Karnakata, were traveling in the United States, and ended up visiting the midcoast of Maine. The monks stayed with host families. Contact and conversation between the host community and the monks began to grow, and in time, the discussion turned...
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Waterville Zazenkai

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 1 April 2004.

Phone: 207-873-1351

Treetop Zen Center

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 1 June 2010.

Phone: 207-465-7563
Email: treetopzen@earthlink.net
Website: http://www.treetopzencenter.org

Description

The Treetop Zen Center was established in 2003 in Holden, ME. Soto-Zen Buddhist Priest and Sensei Stefano Mui Barragato and Sensei Margaret Ne-Eka Reif Barragato moved to Maine from New York and set aside a room in their house for the zendo. To build a community, they advertised the zendo by posting flyers around town and...

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Tu Vien Lien Hoa

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 20 May 2004.

Phone: 504-227-0781
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History

Nguyen Tam started the temple in 2003. He was born in Vietnam and lived and studied Buddhism in Taiwan before coming to the U.S. After spending a year in Houston, Nguyen Tam came to New Orleans and purchased about two acres of land in Gretna to start the temple. Nguyen Tam's master also lives in New Orleans and originally the two occupied a...
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