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•  Fo Guang Shan

  Fo Guang Shan is an international Chinese Mahayana Buddhist monastic order based in the Republic of China (Taiwan), and one of the largest Buddhist organizations. The headquarters of Fo Guang Shan, located in Kaohsiung, is the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. The organization itself is also one of the largest charity organizations in Taiwan. The order also calls itself the International Buddhist Progress Society.

  

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•  Hsin Ting

  Hsin Ting (心定和尚, Xinding Heshang) (1944-) is a Buddhist monk from Taiwan who served as the sixth abbot and director of Fo Guang Shan from 1997 to 2005. He served as acting abbot for three years after the sudden death of his predecessor, the Venerable Hsin Ping, in 1995. Hsin Ting currently serves as the President of Buddha's Light International Association. According to Fo Guang Shan's order of precedence, Hsin Ting is the third highest monastic in the order after the late Hsin Ping.

  

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•  Nan Tien Temple

  Nan Tien Temple is a Buddhist temple complex located in the industrial suburb of Berkeley, on the southern outskirts of the Australian city of Wollongong, approximately 80 km south of Sydney. Nan Tien is a Chinese term which means "southern paradise". Nan Tien is one of the branch temples of Fo Guang Shan, founded in 1967 by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, which has over 120 branches worldwide. The temple is one of the largest Buddhist temples in the southern hemisphere.

  

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•  Fo Guang University

  Fo Guang University (佛光大學; lit. Buddha's Light University) is located in Jiaoxi Township, Yilan County, Taiwan. It was founded by the Mahayana Buddhist Fo Guang Shan monastic order in 2000 and as such represents the culmination of education efforts of the order that started in 1963 with establishing Chinese Buddhist Research Institute at Fo Guang Shan. A gradualist approach was adopted in developing the campus as a part of a plan for the overall area.

  

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•  Hsin Ping

  Hsin Ping (心平和尚, Xinpin Heshang) (1938-April 7, 1995) was the fourth and fifth abbot of Fo Guang Shan, the dharma heir to Venerable Master Hsing Yun, a renowned Buddhist master and founder of Fo Guang Shan. Hsin Ping was a forty-ninth lineage-holder of the Linji Ch'an school through Hsing Yun. Venerable Hsin Ping entered the Buddhist sangha in 1963.

  

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•  Hsin Pei

  Hsin Pei (心培和尚, Xinpei Heshang) (1970-) is the seventh and current abbot and director of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order. Hsin Pei was elected by the members of Fo Guang Shan worldwide in 2004 and succeeded retiring abbot Hsin Ting in 2005. According to Fo Guang Shan's order of precedence, as Abbot, Hsin Pei is the second highest monastic in the order, and is second in line to the position of head teacher. He is a fiftieth lineage holder in the Linji Chan school.

  

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•  Humanistic Buddhism

  Humanistic Buddhism is a modern Buddhist philosophy practiced mostly by Mahayana Buddhists. It is the integration of people's spiritual practice into all aspects of their daily lives. Buddhist monastics such as Taixu, Yinshun and Hsing Yun pioneered the start of the propagation of Humanistic Buddhism. Humanistic Buddhism claims to encompass all of the Buddhist teachings from the time of Gautama Buddha to the present.

  

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•  Buddha's Light International Association

  The Buddha's Light International Association, commonly known as BLIA, is a Buddhist monastic and lay organization. BLIA was established by Venerable Master Hsing Yun in 1992. The organization is associated with the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, the largest Buddhist organization in Taiwan. BLIA is an organization of monastic and lay Buddhists in which Humanistic Buddhism is practiced in everyday life.

  

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•  University of the West

  The University of the West (formerly known as Hsi Lai University, commonly known as UWest) is a university in Rosemead, California. It was founded in 1990 by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, founder of the Taiwan-based Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan and Hsi Lai Temple, the North American order headquarters. The school offered its first class in spring of 1991 and therefore chooses that year as its official start date, making 2011 the date of the campus' 20th anniversary.

  

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•  Pu-Men High School

  Pu-Men High School (Fo Guang Shan Pu-Men High School) is a private Buddhist high school located in Dashu Township (大樹鄉), Kaohsiung County (高雄縣). The school is affiliated with the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order founded by Venerable Master Hsing Yun. In 1977, the name was changed to "Fo Guang Shan Private Pumen Senior High School", and the school was given to Fo Guang Shan. The school converted officially to Kaohsiung County Private-Operated Pu-Men Senior High School on August 1977.

  

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•  Olga Gyarmati

  Olga Gyarmati (born October 5, 1924 in Debrecen) is a retired Hungarian athlete who competed at three Olympic Games in four different events. her greatest success was winning the inaugural Olympic Women's Long Jump competition in London in 1948.

  

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•  Peter Odemwingie

  Osazemwinde Peter Odemwingie,, is a Nigerian-Russian football player born to a Russian mother and a Nigerian father. His name, Osaze, means "God chooses (for you)". He plays as a striker for Russian Premier League side Lokomotiv Moscow.

  

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•  Asvestades

  Asvestades is a village in the municipality of Didymoteicho in the northern part of the Evros Prefecture in Greece and is just 14 km west of the centre on the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiada - Nea Vyssa - Ormenio) and Mavrokklisi and connects a road also connecting Metaxades and Kyprinos. The frontiers of the municipalities of Orestiada lie to the north, Metaxades to the west and Kyprinos to the northwest.

  

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•  Tarnów Grodkowski

  Tarnów Grodkowski is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grodków, within Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Before 1945 the area was part of Germany.

  

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•  JLB Matekoni

  Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni is a fictional character in The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series of books set in Gaborone, Botswana, by Rhodesian-born Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. The books always refer to him by his full name and title. His initials stand for 'John Limpopo Basil' (and according to Alexander McCall Smith, "he's embarrassed about the Basil").

  

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