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	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 (1445 words)

	Political Notoriety Puts Light on Buddhist Trend
		Hsi Lai, also known as the International Buddhist Progress Society, is the largest among the movement's 19 American temples.
		Hsi Lai's devotees are overwhelmingly Chinese from Taiwan.
		But Hsi Lai Temple is a multifunctioning temple." Its intention, he said, is to "make Buddhism Americanized," ensure that a new generation of Chinese in the United States know their Buddhist heritage and that the temple itself functions as a cultural bridge between East and West.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/HsiLai.htm (1131 words)

	Religious Traditions of San Diego: Hsi Fang Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It is connected with the Hsi Lai Temple, a large and beautiful facility in Hacienda Heights, near Los Angeles.
		Both temples are associated with the Fo Guang Shan order, centered in Taiwan and headed by the Venerable Master Hsing Yun.
		The temple is just east of Hillcrest at 4536 Park Blvd, on the west side of the street, 3-4 blocks north of the intersection of Washington and Park Blvd., where Washington ends and El Cajon Blvd. begins.
	www.sandiego.edu /theo/sdrel/pw/hsifang.html (427 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)

	Center Profile: Hsi Lai Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Hsi Lai Temple was built in 1988 by the Taiwanese Buddhist organization of Fo Guang Shan.
		Hsi Lai, which means "coming to the West," was built to spread Buddhism in the West by the Fo Guang Shan order.
		Hsi Lai temple is located at 3456 S. Glenmark Drive in Hacienda Heights, CA.
	www.pluralism.org /research/profiles/display.php?profile=66850 (244 words)

	Part 2 Investigation of improper activities in 1996 election
		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.
		According to her responses to a DNC telephone survey, reimbursed Temple donor Bih-Yueh Jeng was neither a U.S. citizen nor a permanent U.S. resident at the time she made her $5,000 contribution to the DNC in connection with the Presidential event in Los Angeles in July 1996.
		Because the Temple had apparently been engaged in unlawful political activity through hsia since at least 1993, it is open to question as to whether the Hsi Lai Temple qualifies as such a ''bona fide nonprofit'' organization.
	www.ipsn.org /court_cases/part_2_investigation_campaign_activities.htm (17952 words)

	Hsi Fang Temple Online
		A: Venerable Master Hsing Yun, who is also the founder of Hsi Fang Temple's mother monastery, Fo Guang Shan, in Taiwan and the Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles.
		A: It is a Chinese temple of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition.
		Hsi Fang Temple is a three-story building located on the left hand side after the second traffic light.
	www.hsifang.org /english/questions.jsp (342 words)

	John Huang
		Hsi Lai Temple event On April 29, 1996, Vice President Gore attended an event organized by Huang and held at the Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California.
		Instead, the Hsi Lai Temple event was intended to express appreciation to past contributors to the DNC and to encourage others in the Asian American community to contribute in the future.
		At the Hsi Lai Temple, Gore spoke in personal terms of his acquaintance with Hsing Yun, the venerable maser and leader of the temple and its growing worldwide congregation, and of the U.S. tradition of tolerance for immigrant cultures.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/4-4.htm (18624 words)

	Nuns in the West Meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Yifa at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.
		To promote sharing at a deep level, it was decided that the gathering at Hsi Lai would be limited to thirty nuns and would be held without formal papers, observers, media presence, or a formal agenda.
		Lay Dharma teachers, or Oblates in the Christian monastic tradition, pledge to live monastic values in lay life, but many of them are now teaching the monastic way of life-and yet this can only be known from the inside by having lived it.
	www.monasticdialog.com /bulletins/71/nunsinthewest.htm (1711 words)

	The Daily Titan Inter@ctive \| Perspectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Chinese New Year at the Hsi Lai Temple is celebrated much like the way it is observed in heavily Chinese-populated areas like Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles or Monterey Park.
		However, at the Hsi Lai Temple, there is more effort for peace and goodwill to all, Chinese and non-Chinese.
		Venerable Chueh An, a temple nun, explained that while more activities were planned for the weekend, more people come to the temple on Sunday because Westerners traditionally reserve that day for religion.
	dailytitan.fullerton.edu /issues/spring_01/02_20/perspectives/02_13_temple.html (891 words)

	Hsi Lai Temple at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Hsi Lai Temple is the largest Buddhist temple and monastery in the United States.
		The prominent Buddhist leader Venerable Master Hsing Yun is based at Hsi Lai 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-skirts may not be worn and definitely no meat).
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Hsi_Lai_Buddhist_Temple.html (112 words)

	Hsi Lai Temple, Buddhist Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Hsi Lai Temple, located in Hacienda Heights (near Los Angeles), California, was built in 1988.
		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.
	www.sandiegochinese.net /htmls/temple.htm (452 words)

	Pasadena Star-News - LIVING HERE-Hacienda Heights
		Following a daily exercise and meditation, participants (living like monks and nuns for a week in the Hsi Lai Temple short-term monastic retreat) follow a monk in a bow toward the temple.
		On some days, Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights is as quiet as the suburban hillside neighborhood surrounding it.
		Built in 1988 against resistance from neighbors fearing traffic and uneasy about the religion, the temple has gained acceptance by reaching out to the community and offering its space for use by local schools, she said.
	www.pasadenastarnews.com /livinghere/cityprofile/haciendaheights (323 words)

	The Hsi Lai Temple Fundraiser and Maria Hsia
		Significantly, among other things, the PLC organized a fundraiser for Morrison at the Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights on April 22, 1990.\80\ It was apparently not the first time Hsia had used the Temple for a political fundraising event,\81\ and it was not to be the last.
		Finally, Hsia arranged for $5,000 in Temple funds to be laundered to the campaign of Representative Patrick Kennedy for a fundraiser held in Los Angeles on October 5, 1996.
		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)

	AsianWeek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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)

	washingtonpost.com: Campaign Finance Key Player--Hsi Lai Temple
		He initially said it wasn't a fund-raising event, but memos prepared by the DNC for his staff clearly show that those joining him for lunch at the temple had to contribute $2,500 per person to the party.
		The DNC later returned most of the donations and paid the temple back for the cost of the event, admitting it was wrong to hold a political fund-raiser at a tax-exempt religious institution.
		The temple fundraiser was organized by John Huang, who is at the center of Justice Department and congressional investigations into the financing of the 1996 elections.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/campfin/players/temple.htm (227 words)

	Veteran Gore Fund-Raiser Goes on Trial
		The real donors were ineligible to give the money either because the amount of their donations exceeded legal limits or they were foreign nationals who were prohibited from giving campaign contributions.
		Among the people used as straw donors, the government has charged, were dozens of nuns and monks at the Hsi Lai temple where Mr.
		For the second table, she found straw donors because the real donor was a foreign national, the indictment said.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/camp/020800wh-dem-gore-fund.html (826 words)

	The Ascent of Hsi Lai Temple: A Pilgrimage
		The Ascent of Hsi Lai Temple: A Pilgrimage
		Hsi Lai has its own tour on line, with an excellent clickable map.
		I have also provided a one-page version of the devotional section for those who are planning to visit the Temple in person.
	mi-le-fo.thetempleguy.com /pilgrimage.htm (396 words)

	Ken Timmerman for US Senate
		I discovered Gore's ties to the Hsi Lai Temple while conducting what I thought was an unrelated investigation for the American Spectator.
		And on January 11, 1989, Gore and the group toured the Kiaoshung Monastery on Taiwan, as the guests of Hsi Lai Temple Venerable Master Hsing Yun.
		Among the guests were several monks and nuns from the Hsi Lai Temple.
	www.kentimmerman.com /news/wtgore063000.htm (825 words)

	[No title]
		Johnson identified the Hsi Lai Temple operated by the International Buddhist Progress Society as a California non-profit implicated in the $140,000 fund raiser organized by the Democratic National Committee.
		Johnson noted that American Atheists, in monitoring the electioneering activities of religious groups throughout the country, sees a disturbing trend; increasingly, churches, temples and other groups are using their special tax-exempt privileges as partisan, political vehicles by supporting candidates with votes and funds.
		You are undoubtedly aware from press accounts and other sources that the Hsi Lai Temple was involved in a $140,000 fund raiser organized by Mr.
	www.atheists.org /ftpfiles/Press_Releases/19970108.txt (655 words)

	John Huang
		While DNC records attribute 42 contributions to the Temple event, 12 of which were from monastics who did not attend the event itself, and only another 15 or so were from attendees.
		John Huang and the Temple event Although the Temple event was not a fundraiser and Huang had represented that to Richard Sullivan, DNC finance director, when specifically asked, Huang did use it as an opportunity to obtain contributions to the DNC.
		Man-Ho, the assistant to the abbess at the Temple, testified that at a particular meeting of monastics, the abbess told monastics that it would be all right for them to ask devotees to contribute $5,000 to come to the luncheon and have their picture taken with the Vice President.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/4-4.htm (19980 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Campaign Finance Key Player – Hsi Lai Temple
		The temple fund-raiser was organized by John Huang and Maria Hsia.
		Hsia was indicted Feb. 18 on federal charges of laundering campaign contributions from the temple.
		And the temple, also known as the International Buddhist Progress Society, was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/temple.htm (271 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Veep keeps Temple tale alive by changing his story
		Under oath, he actually now claims that he didn't know he was even going to the Temple until he was en route to the event from the Los Angeles airport.
		In her Senate deposition, Tilley said the vice president understood the Temple visit to be a fund-raiser.
		On April 26, Gore was given briefing notes from the Democratic National Committee informing him that the DNC luncheon he would attend on April 29 was at the Hsi Lai Temple.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20660 (536 words)

	Hsi - Welcome to Hsi Lai Temple!
		We'll strip the HSI down to the bare basics, then progressively build it back to the This signal is fed to the HSI to drive the DG portion of the unit.
		HSI is the Hospitality Standards Institute of New Zealand.
		HSi provides a ubiquitous, single platform solution allowing clients to more effectively manage their high-speed connectivity requirements.
	webinfofeed.com /wifd/hsi.htm (406 words)

	:: university buddhist association :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Since Hsi Lai Temple is a very traditional institution, students are asked not to wear tank tops or shorts (long-sleeved shirts are a plus!).
		The temple is a traditional Chinese establishment, founded by the Taiwan-based Buddha Light International association.
		In addition to being a nexus of Buddhist activity in the Los Angeles area, Hsi Lai temple is a prominent center for Chinese culture and learning.
	www.studentgroups.ucla.edu /buddhist/events/04F/hsilai.html (137 words)

	AllPolitics - Inside The Hsi Lai Temple - Aug. 18, 1997
		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.
		Gore went despite warnings to his staff from the National Security Council that "great caution" be used, because the temple "may have a hidden agenda" to display U.S. support for Taiwan.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1997/08/18/blitzer.nuns (521 words)

	Under oath, Richard Sullivan explained the Hsi Lai event. His testimony was quickly forgotten.
		We think what happened at the Hsi Lai temple is fairly clear, although some scribes prefer a good mystery.
		On March 15, 1996, Maria Hsia arranged for Hsing Yun, Venerable Master of the Hsi Lai temple, to meet with Gore at the White House.
		Was the Hsi Lai luncheon a "fund-raiser?" Certainly not of the standard kind.
	www.dailyhowler.com /h032100_1.shtml (1773 words)

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