The Zu Lai Temple

The Zu Lai Temple is a Buddhist temple in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. It is the most important Buddhist temple in South America with 10,000 rectangular meters of built region, interior an area of approximately 150,000 square meters. It has a partnership with Fo Guang Shan, working towards the Mahayana department of Buddhism. The Zu Lai Temple states as its main objective the cultural and non secular dissemination of the Buddhist Tradition, even as seeking to attain to the overall populace the lessons of conventional buddhist education, culture and meditation.

In 1992, the non secular Buddhist Master Hsing Yun had arrived in Brazil, by way of an invite of a nearby Buddhist Temple in Sao Paulo, for a ceremony. An accompanying monk, Jue Cheng, decided to live inside the us of a and start a brand new task with the goal of disseminating the Buddhist lifestyle within the predominantly Catholic united states of america. It commenced as a pretty small temple and had grown to remarkable proportions as time went with the aid of and nearby hobby for Buddhism had grown.