Linh Son Temple - Windsor, ON
N 42° 18.809 W 083° 02.040
17T E 332374 N 4686586
Linh Son Temple is located at 706 Goyeau St. in Windsor, Ontario Canada.
Waymark Code: WMKRBE
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 05/21/2014
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The Linh Son Temple -
Established in 1980's as a private gathering-place-of-worship for the first generation of Vietnamese Boat People in Windsor; then accredited by the Linh Son Head Quarter in Paris, France in 1990. Linh Son Temple Windsor has expanded three times, each with a bigger and better facility, with the current worshippers in the 1000's, from Windsor & Essex County to Chatham, Lodon, …. ON, Detroit, Grand Rapid, …. MI.
Besides conducting the annual religious ceremonies of the Buddha’s birthday, Goddess-of-Mercy anniversaries, Vu-Lan Mother’s day (M?c Ki?n Liên), etc. for worshippers, the Temple also serves as a Community Centre for South East Asian population to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Spring Festival), Moon Festival (Autumn Festival), Year End Festival, etc.
The Temple is also functioning as a Training Facility for future Bhikhus and Bhikhunis (Monks & Nuns).
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Vietnamese boat people refers to refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship after the Vietnam War, especially during 1978 and 1979, but continuing until the early 1990s. The term "Vietnamese Boat People" is often used generically to refer to all the Vietnamese (about 2 million) who left their country by any means or method between 1975 and 1995. This article uses "boat people" to apply only to those people who left Vietnam by boat and arrived in another country.
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Windsor became home to about 600 of the refugees in a humanitarian effort to relocate them.
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