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•  Shaolin Monastery

  The Shaolin Monastery or Shaolin Temple is a Chán Buddhist temple at Song Shan near Zhengzhou City Henan Province in Dengfeng, China. It is led by abbot Venerable abbot Shi Yǒngxìn. Founded in the 5th century, the monastery is long famous for its association with Chinese martial arts and particularly with Shaolin Kung Fu, and it is the Mahayana Buddhist monastery perhaps best known to the Western world.

  

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•  Friends of the Western Buddhist Order

  The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) is an international fellowship of Buddhists, and others who aspire to its path of mindfulness, under the leadership of the Western Buddhist Order. It was founded in the UK in 1967, and describes itself as "an international network dedicated to communicating Buddhist truths in ways appropriate to the modern world".

  

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•  Tzu Chi

  The Tzu Chi Foundation is one of the three largest Buddhist organizations in Taiwan. Tzu Chi was founded by Master Cheng Yen, a nun, on May 14, 1966 in Hualien, Taiwan, after she was inspired by her master and mentor, the late Venerable Master Yin Shun (significant proponent of Humanistic Buddhism) with the great expectation of: "work for Buddhism and for all sentient beings".

  

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•  World Fellowship of Buddhists

  The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) is an international Buddhist organization. It was founded in 1950 in Colombo, Sri Lanka by representatives from 27 nations. Although Theravada Buddhists are most influential in the organization, (its headquarters are in Thailand and all of its presidents have been from Sri Lanka or southeast Asia), members of all Buddhist schools are active in the WFB.

  

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•  Rigpa

  Rigpa is the primordial, nondual awareness advocated by the Dzogchen and Mahamudra teachings.

  

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•  Maha Bodhi Society

  The Maha Bodhi Society is a South Asian Buddhist society founded by the Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala. The organization's self-stated initial efforts were for the purpose of resuscitation Buddhism in India and of restoring the ancient Buddhist shrines at Bodh Gaya, Sarnath and Kushinara.

  

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•  San Francisco Zen Center

  San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC), aka "Zen Center", is a network of affiliated Soto Zen practice and retreat centers in the San Francisco Bay area, comprising City Center or Beginner's Mind Temple, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and Green Gulch Farm. The sangha was incorporated by Shunryu Suzuki-roshi and a group of his American students in 1962. Today SFZC is the largest Soto organization in the West.

  

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•  Buddhist Association of China

  The Buddhist Association of China (Chinese：中国佛教协会） is a major organization of Chinese Buddhism, which serves as the official supervisory organ of Buddhism in the People's Republic of China. It was founded in 1953, and its headquarters are located in Guangji Temple in Beijing. The current president is Venerable Master Yi Cheng, who was an organizer for the World Buddhist Forum, 2006. The vice president is Gyaincain Norbu, the 11th Panchen Lama.

  

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•  Tubten Kunga Center

  Tubten Kunga Center (TKC), is a Buddhist Cener in Deerfield Beach, Florida. TKC follows the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, which is the lineage of the Dalai Lama. The center offers classes on meditation and Buddhist philosophy, under the direction of resident teacher Geshe Konchog Kyab. Tubten Kunga Center is located at 201 SE 15th Terrace, Suite 211, Deerfield Beach, Florida 3341.

  

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•  Minnesota Zen Center

  Minnesota Zen Meditation Center was formed when the founding head teacher, Dainin Katagiri, (1928-1990) was invited to come from California in 1972 to teach a small but growing group of Minneapolis students interested in the dharma. After his death, Shohaku Okumura served as interim head teacher until the installation of Karen Sunna, who had studied with Katagiri Roshi until his death. Succeeding Karen as head priest is Tim Burkett, a long time student of both Katagiri and Suzuki Roshi.

  

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•  Isaac Albéniz

  Isaac Albéniz i Pascual (29 May 1860, Camprodon – 18 May 1909, Cambo-les-Bains) was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms (many of which have been transcribed by others for guitar).

  

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•  Cuyahoga County Public Library

  Cuyahoga County Public Library has 28 branches that serve 47 communities in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was ranked the number one public library in the United States among libraries serving populations of more than 500,000 by the Hennen's American Public Library Ratings 2009. It is the nation's seventh busiest library system, according to the Public Library Data Service Statistical Report 2008.

  

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•  Fabricius von Hilden

  

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•  Mental illness in film

  Mental illness has appeared frequently as a major theme or background element in film.

  

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•  Mananthavadi

  

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