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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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•  Hsi Lai Temple

  Hsi Lai Temple (approximate pronunciation She Lye) is a traditional Chinese Buddhist mountain monastery in the United States. It is located on the foothill region of Hacienda Heights, California, USA, a suburb of Los Angeles County. The name "Hsi Lai" means Coming West in the sense of the "Great Buddhadharma Coming West. " The temple is affiliated with one of Taiwan's largest religious organizations, the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order.

  

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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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•  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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•  List of Victoria Cross recipients of uncertain nationality

  The following is a list of Victoria Cross recipients have an uncertain nationality.

  

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•  John of Matha

  Saint John of Matha was a Christian saint of the 12th century and founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. He was born on 1154 at Faucon-de-Barcelonnette, France. As a youth, he was educated at Aix-en-Provence, and later studied theology at the University of Paris. While in Paris, he was urged by a vision during his first mass to dedicate his life to the service of the captive Christian slaves. He offered service to and was instructed by the hermit, St.

  

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•  Tony DiLeo

  Tony DiLeo (born 8 August, 1955 in Philadelphia) served as the 21st head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA. He took over the position mid-season on December 13, 2008 after then-head coach Maurice Cheeks was fired after starting the season with a 9-14 record. The team went 32-27 under DiLeo's leadership (finishing the season 41-41 overall), and lost their Eastern Conference quarterfinals series to the Orlando Magic.

  

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•  Bab El Oued

  Bab el-Oued is a neighbourhood in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, along the coast north of the city centre. During the existence of French Algeria, Bab el-Oued became the main neighbourhood of poor pied-noirs, including many poor fishermen. Towards the end of the Algerian War of Independence, the neighbourhood became the stronghold of the Organisation de l'Armee Secrete, until OAS attacks on the French Army led them to assault and purge the neighbourhood.

  

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•  CAMS 30E

  The CAMS 30E was a two-seat flying boat trainer built in France in the early 1920s. It was the first aircraft designed for CAMS by Raffaele Conflenti after he had been recruited by the company from his previous job at Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia (SIAI). It was a conventional design for the era featuring a two-bay equal-span unstaggered biplane wing cellule. The prototype was exhibited at the 1922 Salon de l'Aéronautique and evaluated the following year by the Aéronautique Maritime.

  

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