Temple of Lay Hsi

The temple of Hsi Lai is the largest temple and monastery Bouddhiste S in Occident. It is located on the hills at the foot Heights of Hacienda, the California, suburbs of Los Angeles.

The temple was finished in 1988 at a cost of $10 million. The planning and the construction of the temple, in the Eighties, met the suspicion and the resistance of the residents outside the Asian community. These feelings decreased while the general level of conscience was raised and while the temple and its residents proved to be good neighbors. The Taiwanese religious organization Fo Guang Shan, rested by Master Hsing Yun, has its American head offices of north to the temple of Hsi Lai. Currently, the abbot of the temple is Hui principal Worthy Chi.

The temple attracts mainly Buddhists sino-Americans but the welcome general public is provided they remains and complies with the rules of the temple (for example, the wearing of shorts or miniskirts is not tolerated and no meat is authorized).

The temple of Hsi Lai is surrounded by a ground of 15 acre S (61 000 m ²) and a covered surface of 102.432 square feet (9 516 m ²). Ming of the temple (C. 1268-1644 E.) and Ching (1644-1911 E.C.) the architecture of dynasty is faithful to the traditional model of the buildings, the gardens and sculptor of the ancient monasteries Chinese traditional. The planning and the ten years construction were accomplished in 1988. Hsi Lai means “to come to the west” and means the attachment of the Buddhist order of shan of Fo Guang to draw aside the lesson of the Buddha to those in the west. The international Buddhist company of progress, a non-profit organization, is the name privileged for the temple. The head offices of the organization is in Taiwan.

In 1967, Hsing principal Worthy Yun, the founder, established the Buddhist order of shan of Fo Guang (the light mountain of Buddha), which is largest monastery in Taiwan, surrounding more than 600 acres (2.4 km ²). The shan of Fo Guang is a monastic order of Chinese Buddhism of Mahayana. Mahayana in China separated at 8 different schools: Tian-tai, pure ground, Ch' year, Hoot-Yens (Avatamsaka), F-Shiang (Yogacaran), Sanlun (Madhyamikan), Dhyana, and esoteric (Tantra). The shan of Fo Guang belongs to the school of Ch' year of Flax-flax-Chi. During the 30 last years, the Master was instrumental by increasing the religious liberty in the whole of Asia. The Buddhist order of shan of Fo Guang, by a humanistic Buddhist orientation, works to link all the Buddhist schools and sects; it also stimulates and supports the dialog inter-monk among all the spiritual traditions by conferences, conferences and services. The objectives of the order are to provide confidence, the hope of joy and suitability with people. The order also established in the whole world more than 100 temples. More than 1.300 monks and nuns are used in the order of Buddhist of shan as Fo Guang.

The temple of Hsi Lai was built to serve of spiritual and cultural center with those interested to learn more about Buddhism and as the Chinese culture. It is the idea of Hsing principal Worthy Yun to propagate “humanistic Buddhism” and to create a pure ground here on ground. The temple of Hsi Lai is built to achieve these goals in the United States. The objectives of the temple are to maintain the Buddhist missionaries by education, to propagate Buddhism by cultural activities, to profit the company by charitable programs, and to build crowd by Buddhist practices.

To go to the front of the Chinese-American community in the valley of San Gabriel, the temple was an appointment during the countryside of the Mexican American dregs Baca of sheriff of the county of Los Angeles.

In 1991, Hsing Yun founded the university of Hsi Lai in Rosemead, California. In 2004, the university changed its name into university of the west and named Dr. Lewis Lancaster as president.

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