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The Nagara Dhamma
Temple is Cambodian Community. The temple locate at 3225 Lincoln
Way San Francisco, CA 94122
BACKGROUND OF OUR RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION
The Nagara Dhamma
Temple, Inc. is a Buddhist temple established as a nonprofit
religious organization in 1988. Our temple
holds tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service under
Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Our temple has assets of approximately 200 families in our
Buddhist community, ministered to by four resident monks of the
Thai Buddhist denomination.
We are affiliated
with the Thai Buddhist religion and the abbot of this temple is
authorized by the Supreme Sangha Council in Thailand to perform
religious activities.The Supreme Sangha Council holds
unchallenged influence in all matters relating to the practice
and propagation of Buddhism in Thailand. All
Thai Buddhist monks are under its ecclesiastical control.
The Royal Thai Government’s Department of Religious
affairs takes its lead from the Supreme Sangha Council in
determining the qualification of a particular monk to perform
religious functions as an ordained member of the Thai Buddhist
clergy.
In Thai Buddhism,
an ordained monk is authorized to perform all religious
functions relating to marriages, funerals, blessings,
ministering religious services, and preaching.
A monk may be ordained by an abbot only after service as
a novice or acolyte in a temple and several years concentrated
study under the abbot of the temple and at a Thai Buddhist
seminary.
Our temple
supports the monks to perform all religious functions at our
temple relating to marriages, funerals, ministering religious
services, and preaching. This work would
include mission activity at related Thai Buddhist temples in
California and other states.
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