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Hacienda Heights
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Hacienda Heights is a hillside residential area in the southeastern SGV, best known for Hsi Lai Temple, Fo Guang Shan's main North American temple: a palace-style complex open to visitors, with a vegetarian dining hall. Colima Road has lots of Chinese restaurants and plazas.
Jasmine says
The Hsi Lai Temple: Buddha's light and hillside mansions.
The numbers first: Hsi Lai Temple is the largest Buddhist temple in the Western Hemisphere,
15 acres, 100,000 square feet of Ming- and Qing-style buildings,
Fo Guang Shan's first overseas temple, built in 1988,
and even The Amazing Race used it as a starting point.
The vegetarian meals are worth the wait, and don't wear shorts into the halls.
'I moved halfway up the hill in Hacienda Heights for Zen and peace,
but my practice gets wrecked every Lunar New Year in the Hsi Lai Temple traffic;
and the only thrill in my life
is surviving the drive over haunted Turnbull Canyon
to get a boba in Rowland Heights.'
Very Zen, and very practical.
Hsi Lai Temple's light shines on hillside mansions.
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