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 | | His objectives in establishing the temple are to nurture Buddhist missionaries through education, propagate Buddhism through cultural activities, benefit society through charitable programs, and edify the populace through Buddhist practices. | | | Buddhists from around the world donated the $30 million necessary to erect the temple, which was constructed from materials from a number of countries including the United States, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Japan, and Italy. | | | Hsi Lai (pronounced "She lye" and meaning "Coming to the West," signifying that Buddhism is coming from the East to the West) is the largest Buddhist monastery in the western hemisphere, boasting fifteen acres of shrines, gardens, meeting halls, offices, classrooms, a museum, dining hall, and gift shop cluttered around a large central courtyard. |
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| | To ceLebrate Buddha's birthday (5.18.03), LLL and Fred made a piLgrimage to the Hsi Lai Buddhist tempLe in Hacienda Heights. |
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| Â | Encyclopedia: Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple |
| | A July 25, 1993 Los Angeles Times article titled "Ex-Foes Warm Up to Temple Religion: Buddhist edifice, the largest in the Western Hemisphere, has proved to be a good neighbor in a once-hostile community" by Philip P. Pan. |
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| Â | Encyclopedia4U - Los Angeles, California - Encyclopedia Article |
| | One of the major temples, the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple, is located in nearby La Habra, California. | | | Recent immigrants from Asia, for example, have caused a number of significant Buddhist congreations to form. | | | A major temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is located in West Los Angeles. |
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| | The Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple is the largest in the Western world. | | | The statement continued, "Although the temple regrets any failures on its part to understand and comply fully with campaign-finance rules, the temple also is deeply concerned with the negative impact these events may have had on the temple, on Buddhist and Chinese culture, and on Asian Americans. | | | This past week, the focus of the testimony was an event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple on April 29, 1996, which was organized by the Democratic Party and coordinated with the help of former fundraiser John Huang. |
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| Â | The Truth About The Clinton-Clinton-Gore Years - Page 7 |
| | The DNC admits it raised $140,000 at a fund-raiser featuring Vice President Al Gore at a Buddhist temple. | | | Dozens of Buddhist monks, who have taken vows of poverty, contributed up to $5,000 each. | | | Four days before details emerge on Al Gore's participation in the illegal fund-raiser at the Hsi Lai Buddhist monastery, Gore claims, "We have strictly abided by all of the campaign finance laws, strictly. |
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| Â | Hsi Lai Temple, Buddhist Temple |
| | This $30 million Temple, on 15 acres of land, was financed by donations from Buddhist devotees from around the world. | | | The Temple is a monasterial operation of the International Buddhist Progress Society, a nonprofit organization incorporated in California. | | | It is the idea of Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the founder of this Temple, to propagate "Humanistic Buddhism" and to create a pure land here on earth. |
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| Â | AllPolitics - Inside The Hsi Lai Temple - Aug. 18, 1997 |
| | And telling her story is a Buddhist nun, who has been given immunity so she can testify to the Senate committee investigating the affair without fear of prosecution. | | | In exclusive interviews with CNN, a Buddhist monk and nun give their side of a Democratic fund-raising controversy that haunts the vice president | | | Was the temple's master, Hsing Yun (pronounced "sing yun"), trying to influence the U.S. government to be more supportive of Taiwan? |
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| Â | Buddhist Organizations - All Things Spiritual Directory |
| | - Informative Indonesian Buddhist Website containing: The Three Gems: Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, Letter from Sangha Theravada Indonesia, Texts, Photos, Links, etc. List of Viharas/Temples in Indonesia and Buddhist News. | | | We are part of a group of centers in the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma tradition founded by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, and under the direction of Khenpo Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche. | | | This unique and many-faceted approach blends meditation practice, study of traditional Buddhist subjects, and Dharma work to bring the Buddha’s teaching into daily life. |
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| Â | Nuns Gather for Mass in Buddhist Temple @ TraditionInAction.org |
| | A priest preaches to Catholic nuns, who gather for a retreat at the Hsi lai Buddhist Temple (Hacienda Heights, CA). | | | Nuns Gather for Mass in Buddhist Temple @ TraditionInAction.org | | | Behind the priest, an altar to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is set up in front of the statue of Buddha. |
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| Â | Salon.com politics A Gore scandal guide for dummies |
| | From the Buddhist temple to Johnny Huang to Charlie Trie and "no controlling legal authority," the last four years are a tangled mess of alleged wrongdoings that hover over this administration. | | | Gore released the entire transcript of his April Q-and-A session with investigators Friday, which included a denial about the infamous Buddhist temple fundraiser in 1996. | | | In September 1997, a trio of Buddhist nuns from the temple admit in Senate testimony that the temple illegally reimbursed guests for their donations. |
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| Â | Hannibal Election 2000Missing Gore e-mails detail Buddhist temple event, donor's offer to make contribution 10/12/00 |
| | One e-mail urged the vice president to take $20 along on the trip to the Buddhist temple in California. | | | Hannibal Election 2000Missing Gore e-mails detail Buddhist temple event, donor's offer to make contribution 10/12/00 | | | The half-inch thick stack of messages was reconstructed from Gore's office and contains several e-mails that conflict with the White House's original explanations that the Buddhist temple event and White House coffees weren't fund-raisers. |
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| Â | Missing Gore e-mails contain information on Buddhist temple event, donor's offer - September 22, 2000 |
| | One e-mail urged the vice president to take $20 along on the trip so he could make an offering at the Buddhist temple. | | | The e-mail messages do appear to contradict initial claims made by Gore and other White House officials that the vice president did not know the Buddhist temple event was a fund-raiser. | | | The e-mails released Friday reflect that the vice president's staff considered the Buddhist Temple event to be money-related. |
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| | They are: the Hsi Lai Temple, a Los Angeles-based sect operated by the International Buddhist Progress Society, and another group linked to Buddhist religious leader "Supreme Master" Ching Hai. | | | As President of American Atheists, an organization dedicated to the total and absolute separation of state and church, I again wish to request that your Office re-evaluate the tax-exempt status of both the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temples and similar corporate entities linked to Supreme Master Ching Hai. | | | I noted that thus far, at least two Buddhist religious groups had been linked to such highly questionable activities in the 1996 campaign. |
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| Â | Hsi Lai Temple |
| | In this context, Hsi Lai was often referred to in the media as simply "the Buddhist temple". | | | The temple mainly attracts local Chinese-American Buddhists but the general public is welcome provided they abide and respect the rules of the temple (e.g., shorts and mini-skirt s may not be worn and definitely no meat). | | | Hsi Lai Temple is the largest Buddhist temple and monastery in the United States. |
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| | Donations brought in by Trie and Chung, and money given at the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple, may be problematic for this reason. | | | As the DNC has said, several of the categories were based on relationships with Huang, Trie, Chung, or the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple. | | | While the DNC has made efforts to apologize, it also has started to deny that it targeted Asian Americans in any manner, explaining that it looked only at money solicited by Huang, Trie, Chung, or raised "in connection" with the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple event. |
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| Â | TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 11. Al Gore and the Temple of Doom. John B. Judis. |
| | ore acted egregiously and stupidly in visiting the Buddhist temple, but he didn't break any laws and was not involved in any kind of plot with the Chinese agents. | | | Before the election is over, they hope that Americans will be repeating the phrases "no controlling legal authority" and "raising money from Buddhist monks" in their sleep. | | | But Gore has denied knowing that Hsia and Huang were laundering money through Buddhist monks, and no one has uncovered any evidence to the contrary. |
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| Â | Sullivan and Strauss explained the Hsi Lai event in detail. Some scribes preferred mystery thrillers. |
| | BIRNBAUM: Gore had many reasons to believe the Buddhist temple lunch was a fundraiser. | | | MONDICS (paragraph 1): For several years, Vice President Gore has maintained he know little about the real purpose of a 1996 luncheon in his honor at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in a suburb [of Los Angeles]. | | | MONDICS: Temple monks and officials have told federal prosecutors they funneled thousands of dollars into Democratic Party coffers at the fund-raiser and that they were reimbursed out of temple accounts the same day, a scheme investigators said Hsia concocted. |
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| | The following list describes the images of Chinese Buddhist life that are included in the archive: | | | Images of Dharma - Photo Archive of Buddhist Life | | | In the U.S. Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights, California |
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| | 67 (``[T]he temple sent a team of monks and nuns to the event, and as I recall, someone spoke as the representative of that [organization], and because of that connection or linkage, Eddy Yang was an event chair because of his connection initially with the Buddhist temple that helped subsidize the trip to Taiwan.''). | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ See, e.g., Phil Kuntz, ``Instant Karma: Cash Gets to Democrats Via Buddhist Temple,'' Wall Street Journal, Oct. 17, 1996 (recounting allegations by Buddhist nun that DNC donation for Gore event was reimbursed). | | | Significantly, it was this search for new political opportunities in 1988-89 that helped bring Hsia and the Riady/Huang group together, simultaneously, both with Venerable Master Hsing Yun's Fo Kuang Shan Buddhist order and with then-U.S. Senator Al Gore. |
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| | Immigrants from Asia, for example, have formed a number of significant Buddhist congregations. | | | Los Angeles is also home to a number of Neopagans and other mystical religions. | | | Los Angeles' large multi-ethnic population has fostered some of the less common religions of |
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| | Place: Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple | | | 6:30 AM-7 AM Attend morning Buddhist chanting class (optional) | | | The drive between the Art Show at World Journal Center in Monterey Park and Hsi Lai Temple is approximately 30 minutes. |
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| | Separately, the White House releases a stack of documents purporting to show Gore was unaware that an April 1996 event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in suburban Los Angeles would raise funds. | | | 4, 1997 -- Two Buddhist nuns who helped coordinate the Hsi Lai temple event attended by Al Gore admit they destroyed a list of donors and other documents because they thought the information would embarrass the temple. | | | 5, 1997 -- The vice president's former deputy chief of staff denies the Hsi Lai temple event was a fund-raiser. |
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| Â | Gore denies knowing Buddhist temple event was a fund-raiser - 06/24/00 |
| | Gore denies knowing Buddhist temple event was a fund-raiser - 06/24/00 | | | Gore denies knowing Buddhist temple event was a fund-raiser | | | Gore said he hoped that making the four-hour interview public would bolster his repeated assertions that he knew few details in advance about the Buddhist Temple event. |
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| Â | American Politics Journal -- GOP Functionaries Attended 1996 Buddhist Temple Event, Too! |
| | American Politics Journal -- GOP Functionaries Attended 1996 Buddhist Temple Event, Too! | | | Gore Transcript States GOP Functionaries Attended 1996 Buddhist Temple Event, Too! | | | Gore maintained all along that he had never been told, and had never assumed, that the Hsi Lai Temple event was a Democratic fundraiser. |
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