October 21, 2013
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Buddha has a Church!
While walking through a park in Chinatown I saw this building across the street so I took a photo. I was surprised to learn that Buddha has a church because I thought Buddhist had temples. Click here for information about this church. http://www.bucsf.com/
Had I been alone instead of with a group I would have visited the inside or taken a tour of the building. If any of you know the difference in a Buddhist church and a temple please comment.
Comments (8)
I always imagined temples to have rows columns and churches have bell towers. I never really though much about there being a real difference though.
Interesting. I like learning new things, so I look forward to returning and finding out what others have to reply about this topic.
Then again, perhaps its just a difference like when one says po-tay-to and one says po-tah-to. I think when it comes to religion, the shape or title of the building is not really the important part; it’s what goes on inside: inside the buidling and inside the people who attend.
I’ve only heard that Buddists have temples. So this is new to me. Thanks for the link…I’m gonna’ go check it out.
It would be cool to take a tour of it and ask questions.
HUGS!!!
I believed too Buddists had temples .
Perhaps this word church applied to the Buddists is is a local and recent foudation???
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Michel
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Hi there. I always thought they had temples, too. Maybe they’re trying to appeal to Christians?!
Sounds like Buddhist’s conforming to local culture.
Some people will accept church more easily than temple, although I don’t know why, because even Christian scriptures always speak of the ‘temple of God’.
I saw this post, and googled it. I believe normally there are only temples, but that this is a way of informing people about Buddhism. They only meet once a month on a Sunday for giving lectures; they also have tours, etc. Their website had a history of it, and other interesting things. Here is the link to the site: http://www.bucsf.com/