Santa Maria Central Coast Church - Guadalupe Buddhist Church
 Hanamatsuri celebrated at the Guadalupe Buddhist Church Buddha’s Birthday: The birthday of the Prince Siddhartha Gautama, is a holiday traditionally celebrated in Mahayana Buddhism. According to the Theravada Tripitaka scriptures[which?] (from Pali, meaning “three baskets”), Gautama was born in Lumbini in modern-day Nepal, around the year 563 BCE, and raised in Kapilavastu. According to this […]  Members of Guadalupe’s Japanese community, both past and present, gathered in front of the Guadalupe Buddhist Church Saturday morning for a group photo commemorating the congregation’s centennial anniversary. Throughout the church’s 100 years of existence, its members have assembled in a similar fashion to mark significant milestones. Aging black-and-white photos show them posing in front […]
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