About us

    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.