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OBON – Another successful Obon Festival under our belts thanks to so many helpful hands. Namu Amida Butsu. Other Obon Donations Four boxes of fortune cookies John and Leslie Hayashi Five dinner gift certificates/mandarin drinks Atari-ya Restaurant 100 rolls of sushi 100 rolls of norimaki Hamasato Restaurant Strawberries Henry/Chiyo Okui Graphic design services (posters) Reflections […]

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OBON – Another successful Obon Festival thanks to so many helpful hands. We are interrelated. Namu Amida Butsu. WINNERS – OBON RAFFLE 2017:   1,500.00 Alma Ortega, Santa Maria 500.00 Lorene Yoshihara, Santa Maria 300.00 Clancy McAuliff, Santa Maria 100.00 Aki Tanimoto 100.00 Rosie Muranaka, Santa Maria 100.00 Zack Chun 100.00 Toshio Kamo, Santa Maria […]

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Guadalupe Buddhist Church welcomes the public to the annual Japanese Obon Festival. Members of the church hold the event to express gratitude and honor to their ancestors who first initiated the observance and pay respects to those who passed during the year. Attendees will have a chance to taste authentic Japanese cuisine, listen to taiko […]

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The weeks leading up to the 2017 Obon Festival, the offers to volunteer kept pouring in. The Guadalupe Buddhist temple would like to send out heartfelt THANK YOU to all of this years volunteers. We could not have done it without you. The long hours, the attention to detail and the commitment to help. THANK […]

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Did you have a chance to read the article in the Santa Maria Sun times today? Well here it is. We are humbled to read that we made the local section of the online paper. Below is a cut and paste from the article and some of the photos by Frank Cowen.   Every year, […]

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