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Vishnu Das Sivananda: The Vietnamese community is awesome and there are visiting monastics, a children's program and learning Vietnamese language. The community is very tight knit, but also respectful towards strangers and kind.The American group which meets Wednesdays lacks adequate higher leadership and is more focused on a widow, Carolyn White, and her dead husband (Winston Wilkinson, deceased early Oct 2010) than Buddhism in the end, but some non-leaders are very kind. Carolyn, via heresay, impersonates monastics and tries wedging herself between sangha members and monastics, her and her husband also have some weird food habits, rather than eating mindfully what one needs, she tried making others feel guilty for eating regular food amounts. When reading a section about physically intimate moderation and chastity, she would not allow me reading the chaste part in support and aspiration of monastic life, for example. Very demeaning. If you go to the American group despite my suggestion, be sure to speak your mind right away.Try making friends with the Vietnamese and visit the VIetnamese temple near College Road, too, where they have an American group which meets sometimes, also, and is kindly run.At both temples, the Vietnamese have awesome food, but don't let it distract you from meditation and dhamma 🙏🏽

alps: We often go here to pray and spend some spiritual time. We also did our Car Pooja here. Temple has restrooms, huge seating space, Sai Pooja on Thursday, Prasad contributed by devotees. It’s neat, clean, well maintained with lot of parking space.