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The first Tzong Kwan Temple was founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Ven. Tripitaka Pu Hsien in 1988. Ven. Pu Hsien was born in Taiwan in 1943. In 1963, when he was 20 years old, Ven. Pu Hsien was ordained as a Buddhist monk. In 1974 he was chosen to be abbot of the She Tuo Shang Temple in Taichung, Taiwan.
In 1985, Ven. Pu Hsien went to the United States, where he spent 3 years teaching. Dedicated to spread the dharma throughout the Americas, Ven. Pu Hsien arrived in Buenos Aires in 1988. After contacting and working with the Taiwanese community, he realized that the religious interest of these immigrants had been active for several years. In 1982 a large number of Taiwanese families arrived to Buenos Aires seeking a better life. As practicers of Buddhism, these families gathered at a house in Galicia 2800 in the neighborhood of Villa Santa Rita, Buenos Aires. However, soon the house has not enough space for the immigrants as well as Argentinean Buddhist who...
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Shoji, R., Quero, H.C. (2015). Tzong Kwan. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_119-1
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