One of the more notable events learned involved Vice President Al Gore and a fund-raising event held at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California.

Hsi Lai Temple ( meaning " Coming West ") is the largest Buddhist temple in Southern California.

Hsi Lai was built to serve as a spiritual and cultural center for those interested in learning Buddhism and Chinese culture.

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As it was not possible at the time to organize an ordination ceremony for bhikkhunis in the Theravada tradition, Ayya Khema then received complete monastic ordination at the newly built Hsi Lai Temple, a Chinese Mahayana temple under the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, in 1988.

A hallway in California's Hsi Lai Temple.

The largest Buddhist temple in the Southern Hemisphere is the Nan Tien Temple ( translated as " Southern Paradise Temple "), situated at Wollongong, Australia, while the largest Buddhist temple in the Western Hemisphere is the Hsi Lai Temple ( translated as " Coming West Temple "), in California, USA.

Also in the last year 1996, there was a scandal that Hsi Lai Temple, branch in the United States, have done $ 100, 000 illegal campaign contributions through Maria Hsia who had been a long time fund raiser for Al Gore.

He was a figure of interest during the 1996 United States finance scandal involving then-U. S. Vice President Al Gore and a visit to Hsi Lai Temple, the U. S. branch of Hsing Yun's organization.

Hsi Lai Temple ( USA ), Nan Tien Temple ( Australia ), and Nan Hua Temple ( South Africa ) are among the biggest branch temples.

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Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, second largest Buddhist temple and monastery in the Western hemisphere.

* Hsi Lai Temple-Hacienda Heights

Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple () is a traditional Chinese Buddhist mountain monastery in the United States, one of the largest of its kind in the North American continent.

The name " Hsi Lai " means Coming West in the sense of the " Great Buddhadharma Coming West.

Hsi Lai was the site of the founding of Buddha's Light International Association, established in 1991.

Hsi Lai Temple and its surroundings

Therefore, Fo Guang Shan asked the Venerable Tzu Chuang ( who, upon the inception of the temple, became the founding and first abbess of Hsi Lai Temple ) and Yi Heng to plan and organize the construction of the temple in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Such negative feelings about the building of Hsi Lai have since diminished as the general level of awareness has been raised and as the temple and its residents have proven to be good neighbors.

Immediately after its opening, Hsi Lai was the venue of many important events.

In 2008, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the opening of Hsi Lai, another international Triple Platform Full Ordination Ceremony for monastics and a Liberation Rite of Water and Land was subsequently held.

In Summer 2011, Hsi Lai Temple was the starting location for the 19th season of the Emmy Primetime award-winning reality series The Amazing Race.

On September 4, 2012, Hsi Lai Temple abbot Hui Chi was elected to the post of head abbot of the Fo Guang Shan order, succeeding Hsin Pei.

In 1990, in conjunction to the completion of Hsi Lai Temple, Master Hsing Yun founded Hsi Lai University, one of sixteen Buddhist colleges and universities operated by Fo Guang Shan.

* Joseph Needham noted a Chinese text dating from 304AD, Records of the Plants and Trees of the Southern Regions, by Hsi Han, which describes mandarin oranges protected by biological pest control techniques that are still in use today.

He supposedly discovered there the Jade Palace of Huang-Di, the mythical Yellow Emperor and originator of Chinese culture, and met Hsi Wang Mu ( Xi Wang Mu ), the ' Spirit Mother of the West ' usually called the ' Queen Mother of the West ', who was the object of an ancient religious cult which reached its peak in the Han Dynasty, also had her mythical abode in these mountains.

Cheong Soo Pieng ( creator of Drying Salted Fish ) and Chen Wen Hsi ( creator of Gibbons Fetching the Moon from the Water ) are two pioneering artists who created a new type of fine arts in Singapore that influenced other local artists, in which their two paintings are featured.

In the Four – Seven Debate with Ki Daesung, Toegye ( Yi Hwang, 1501 – 70 ), while being still dualistic, broke away from Chu Hsi by espousing the reciprocal emanation ( hobal ) of i and ki: with the Four, ki follows i when i becomes emanant ; with the Seven, when ki becomes emanant, i ‘ rides ’ ki.

In the past, it was also a small mausoleum, but since there was no more room for urns to be interred, the urns were moved to a new Buddhist mausoleum built by Hsi Lai in 1999, located at the summit of Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier.

There are five: the Nyan ( cats ), Tanuki ( badgers ), Hanumen ( monkeys ), Heng Po ( usually fish, particularly carp or catfish, or sometimes dolphins ) and Fu Hsi ( snakes ).

* Requiem Pagoda ( 懷恩堂 ): Located at the summit of Hsi Lai, it honors those who have died.

A bell within the grounds of Hsi Lai, traditionally used to mark the start or end of daily activities at a monastery.

A popular service at Hsi Lai, it involves the recitation of the Great Compassion Mantra, elaborate bowing, offering, and circumbulations.

As the group conserves food and water while trying to save hungry children, it awaits reinforcements, but Empress Tzu Hsi is plotting with the Boxers to break the siege at the compound with the aid of Chinese troops.

He also served as abbot at Long Hua Temple in Malaysia, Hsi Lai Temple in California, Pu Men Temple in Taipei, and Pu Hsien Temple in Kaohsiung.

Hsi Lai was built in 1988 at a cost of $ 10 million and is often described as the largest Buddhist temple in the Western hemisphere.

Hsi Lai was at the center of a campaign finance controversy by Vice President Al Gore.

Nearby in Hacienda Heights, Hsi Lai Temple-a Buddhist temple-was built in 1988, though the proposed development was opposed at the time by some local residents, now it is a respected, and accepted part of the community.

Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, the second largest Buddhist temple and monastery in the western hemisphere, is located in the hills.

Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, second largest Buddhist temple and monastery in the Western hemisphere.

The Hsi Lai Temple is the largest Buddhist temple in the Western Hemisphere.

North of La Puente is West Covina which is 26 % Asian and south of La Puente is Hacienda Heights which is 36 % Asian Hacienda Heights is home to the Hsi Lai Temple, the largest Buddhist temple in the United States.