Life in the United States

                              

The Dharma Realm Buddhist Association



Within six years of living in the United States, Hsuan Hua opened the Buddhist Lecture Hall in San Francisco’s, Chinatown.  At the lecture hall, he would give nightly lectures teaching Americans about Mahayana Buddhism.  As his teachings and popularity grew, hundreds of monks and nuns from all over the world came to California to study with Hua. 

                His beginning in the United States started with a single Buddhist Lecture Hall in a loft and eventually grew to twenty-eight temples, monasteries and convents in multiple countries.   One of his well known temples is The City of Ten Thousand Buddha’s, one of the first Chan Buddhist monasteries and The Dharma Realm Buddhist Association, a Buddhist organization that has the main goal of spreading the teachings of the Buddha.