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	Hsi Lai Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The planning and construction of the temple, in the 1980s, were met with suspicion and resistance from local residents outside of the Asian/Buddhist community, many of whom knew little about Buddhism or had negative attitudes.
		Hsi Lai does not use these instruments regularly because of their loud volume when played, and there are residential areas at the foot of the temple.
		Not only does Hsi Lai have workshops on Buddhism, the temple also holds workshops on a wide range of topics including taxation, legal issues, education, immigration, marriage, family discipline, etc. Invitied speakers are experts in their respective fields who are willing to share their knowledge for the benefit of others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hsi_Lai_Temple (1898 words)

	Hsi Lai Temple
		The Hsi Lai Temple was built according to the architecture of the Ming and Ching dynasty.
		The actual planning of the temple took place on August 22, 1984 and the actual construction of the temple was on July 28, 1986.
		The Hsi Lai Temple is the largest temple in the U.S. most Buddhist come to this particular location to carry on their practices in the west.
	www.onlineessays.com /essays/history/his103.php (1342 words)

	Religious Diversity News -- Search Results
		Hsi Lai Temple has been only minimally distracted from its goal of promoting spiritual education and culture by the negative publicity due to illegal contributions to the Democratic National Committee.
		The Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights is one of the movement's 19 temples in the United States.
		According to the Venerable Hui Chuan, vice abbot of the Hsi Lai Temple, the intention of the movement is to "make Buddhism Americanized," to ensure that a new generation of Chinese know their Buddhist heritage, and to have the temple itself function as a bridge between East and West.
	pluralism.org /news/index.php?tags=4686.2080.545.576.1007.6688.6670.... (910 words)

	Cornerstone Theater Company WHAT WE'RE UP TO main page
		The Hsi Lai Temple was built in 1988 to serve those who are interested in learning Buddhism and to serve as a bridge of cultural exchange between the East and the West.
		The Hsi Lai Temple's objectives are to expand skills and talents through education; to foster an awareness of Buddhism through cultural activities; to benefit society through charitable programs; and to cultivate human minds through Dharma practice.
		Temple Emanuel is a modern Reform congregation, drawing upon what is relevant and enriching to lives.
	www.cornerstonetheater.org /where_faith.html (446 words)

	Catalog Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple sits on 15 acres of breathtaking beauty overlooking Hacienda Heights.
		The temple’s Ming and Qing dynasty architecture is faithful to the traditional style of buildings and gardens of ancient Chinese monasteries.
		This working temple, with its Bodhisarrva hall, Requiem pagodas, and museum was built in 1988 at a cost of $300 million.
	www.saddleback-ce.com /CatDetail.asp?ClassID=6015 (115 words)

	AsianWeek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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.
		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.
		Strauss denied that the temple luncheon was a fundraiser.
	www.asianweek.com /091297/lead_story.html (2257 words)

	The Hsi Lai Temple Fundraiser and Maria Hsia
		At least initially, however, this project--which was to culminate with her efforts to involve the Hsi Lai Temple on behalf of national Democratic candidates in the 1996 elections--could not be accomplished alone.
		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.'').
		Temple monastics, acting on the suggestion by Abbess Tzu Jung that it would be ``appropriate'' for them to do so, solicited a number of donations to the DNC from Temple devotees in advance of the Vice President's visit.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/2-17.htm (16619 words)

	Hsi lai buddhist temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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	hsi.setroot.com /hsi-lai-buddhist-temple.php (359 words)

	Center Profile: Hsi Lai Temple
		Hsi Lai Temple was built in 1988 by the Taiwanese Buddhist organization of Fo Guang Shan.
		Located on 15 acres of land in Hacienda Heights, the temple was built in the fashion of Ming and Qing dynasty architecture.
		Hsi Lai, which means "coming to the West," was built to spread Buddhism in the West by the Fo Guang Shan order.
	www.pluralism.org /research/profiles/display.php?profile=66850 (244 words)

	The world's top hsi lai temple websites
		During the 1980s, the plans for construction of Hsi Lai were considered controversial, especially for local white residents who felt it didn't belong there and opposed it (the city now has fewer whites as Asians and Latinos have taken their place).
		During the 1996 presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore held a controversial fundraiser at Hsi Lai.
		To court the Chinese American community in the San Gabriel Valley, the temple was a venue during the campaign of the Mexican American Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca.
	www.websbiggest.com /wiki-article-tab.cfm/hsi_lai_temple (286 words)

	Hsi lai temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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	Nuns in the West II - May, 2005
		Six Buddhist, one Hindu, and eight Christian nuns had participated in the first Nuns in the West gathering in 2003, and several were participants in other MID-sponsored dialogue events, including the Gethsemani Encounters and the Benedict’s Dharma Conference.
		Buddhist and Hindu participants represented only two states and Canada; most are residing in California at the present time.
		As a Buddhist nun who is embarking on the great adventure of founding an abbey in the West, I deeply appreciate the support of these nuns—both Buddhist and Catholic, Western and Asian.
	www.urbandharma.org /nuns2005.html (2856 words)

	Field Trip: Buddhist Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I was kind of grumpy at the beginning of this field trip because while I did want to see a Buddhist service, I had to get up early for it, which I do not like to do.
		When I finally did get to the temple, I was taken aback by the size of the place.
		It was huge, compared to my old church at least, and had beautiful architecture, with many interesting statues and large, sweeping, tile roofs all around (although the roofs were mainly on top of the buildings).
	home.graffiti.net /happybeingdumb/fieldtrip1.html (761 words)

	Hsi Lai Temple, Buddhist Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Temple is a monasterial operation of the International Buddhist Progress Society, a nonprofit organization incorporated in California.
		The Temple has the traditional architecture of ancient Chinese monasteries, yet it is equipped with state of the art facilities.
		This $30 million Temple, on 15 acres of land, was financed by donations from Buddhist devotees from around the world.
	www.sandiegochinese.net /htmls/temple.htm (452 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Gore's had 15 chances to escape Temple of Doom
		Next thing he knows, Buddhist nuns are draping leis around his neck and Democratic National Committee fund-raisers are scurrying about with cell phones and calculators.
		But not only did Gore know what he was getting into weeks in advance, he also had 15 chances, by my count, to back out of the fund-raiser and avoid the years of controversy and organic explanations that have followed.
		In fact, China-born donor Sherry Shaw, who also sat at Gore's table, said Matsui took the podium and reassured guests that it was "OK to give contributions at the Hsi Lai temple." Matsui introduced Gore as the guest of honor.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20676 (1081 words)

	[CTRL] 'Chinese Agent' Funneled Buddhist Temple Money to Gore
		Under a 1997 immunity agreement with Senate investigators, nuns at California's Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple testified that Hsia had been shaking down the temple for donations "since at least 1993." Brian Sun, a lawyer representing several temple members, told the Times, "The temple never intended to skirt the law.
		But despite the immunity grant, Yi Chu, Hsi Lai treasuer at the time of Gore's 1996 fundraiser, fled the country and was not available to testify at Hsia's trial -- making the Gore fund-raiser's conviction all the more remarkable.
		They say Hsia started shaking down Buddhists for Gore more than ten years ago: "Right after the 1988 election, Al Gore, Maria Hsia, John Huang, James Riady, and the Hsi Lai Temple organization began what was to be an eight-year relationship.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg37792.html (433 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Hsi Lai Temple Near Los Angeles
		Feb 7 2005, 06:08 PM The founder of the temple, Venerable Master Hsing Yun, is from Lin-Chi (Chan) lineage.
		The temple and its "staff", and others within BLIA, are supported by donations and sales from BL Publications.
		I have been attending the Fo Guang Shan Temple in Toronto which is a sister temple of the Hsi Lai one in LA. I have been to that one as well.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t11449.html (1372 words)

	Missing Gore e-mails contain information on Buddhist temple event, donor's offer - September 22, 2000
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Al Gore was asked to bring $20 to the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple fund-raiser and his staff was informed that a businessman was willing to raise $250,000 in exchange for coffee with President Clinton, according to recently reconstructed White House e-mails.
		The e-mails released Friday reflect that the vice president's staff considered the Buddhist Temple event to be money-related.
		The disclosure of the e-mails comes less than a month after Attorney General Janet Reno announced she would not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the vice president over statements he made regarding the Buddhist temple and other fund-raising events.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/22/gore.email (981 words)

	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.
		The Hsi Lai (pronounced "see lie") temple is high in the hills outside Los Angeles, an insulated world.
		Gore had been scheduled to visit the temple to do what he called "community outreach." But party organizers turned the event into a fund-raiser, something prohibited at a nonprofit religious institution.
	edition.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1997/08/18/blitzer.nuns (521 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I noted that thus far, at least two Buddhist religious groups had been linked to such highly questionable activities in the 1996 campaign.
		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.
		There is actionable evidence that both the Temple and the Supreme Master sect may have engaged in improper partisan political activity, a violation which should prompt your Agency to reconsider whatever special religious tax exemption these groups enjoy.
	www.atheists.org /ftpfiles/Press_Releases/19970219.txt (407 words)

	AsianWeek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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.
		Buddhist nuns and their representatives listen to questions by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Fred Thompson Sept. 4.
	www.asianweek.com /092697/feature.html (4281 words)

	'Chinese Agent' Funneled Buddhist Temple Money to Gore Since 1993 [Free Republic]
		Her clients would later include the Hsi Lai Temple, whose parent was the Fo Kuang Shan Buddhist order.
		Gore is not merely a liar, a crook, a traitor and a fool--he's helping kill the world's children with the dangers of cigarettes, in direct contradiction of his passionate vow.
		The Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple is a tax exempt 501(c) organization, and it is illegal for such a non-profit group to engage in political fundraising, which constitutes part of the illegality of such fundraising.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38ced0883c82.htm (2188 words)

	Monastic Interreligious Dialogue \| Nuns in the West II
		Sister Jeanne Ranek, OSB, member of MID's board of directors and coordinator of Nuns in the West II, provides a reflective report on the gathering of Buddhist, Hindu, and Catholic nuns that took place at the Hsi Lai Chinese Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, May 27—30, 2005.
		For a Buddhist reflection on the gathering, see the article by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron, which also appears in Bulletin 75.
		Yifa belongs to Fo Guang Shan and is Dean of Hsi Lai University in Los Angeles.
	www.monasticdialog.com /a.php?id=717&t=p (1801 words)

	Guest Comment
		Yi Chu and Man Ho were charged yesterday by a federal grand jury with contempt of court in connection with the infamous April 1996 Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple fundraiser headlined by campaign-finance-reform crusader Al Gore.
		The government granted immunity to the nuns in an attempt to elicit testimony for its case against now-convicted Gore supporter and friend, Maria Hsia, who arranged the temple visit.
		The temple "venerables" were subpoenaed in May of 1998 and, when a federal judge ordered them to testify in the Hsia case earlier this year, it is believed they fled to Taiwan.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/commentprint040600b.html (602 words)

	In The News
		Vice President Al Gore still isn’t out of the woods regarding his controversial visit to Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in southern California in April 1996.
		He has said he thought the event was “community outreach,” not a fund-raiser, and that the $55,000 the visit netted was raised without his knowledge.
		In a press release from the Republican National Committee, its chairman, Jim Nicholson, diagnosed the Vice President as having “Buddhist temple amnesia,” adding, “He…
	www.tricycle.com /issues/tricycle/9_4/inthenews/761-1.html (74 words)

	Gore's E-Mail Trail: Long-Missing Messages Brought To Light [Free Republic]
		The long-missing messages, provided Friday to the House Government Reform Committee chaired by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., also show that Gore's office was informed of an offer from a businessman to raise $250,000 if a White House coffee were arranged with President Clinton.
		Gore critics have maintained for four years that the temple event and the coffees, 21 of which had the vice president as host, were fundraisers.
		The e-mail shows the Gore staff considered the April 1996 event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple near Los Angeles to be a fundraiser.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39cd75c65e16.htm (827 words)

	Amy Lam: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Amy Lam: Amy was born in Hong Kong and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics and holds a Master degree in Business from Purdue University.
		Amy has translated numerous Buddhist texts and worked as a member of the translation department at Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple.
		She and Madelon have been colleagues for over five years and have just recently finished their first co-translation of the Platform Sutra.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Lam_Amy_490183737.htm (223 words)

	Buddist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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