{"id":2436,"date":"2009-01-12T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T05:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2009-01-12T02:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T06:30:11","slug":"sunday-at-chua-tu-hieu-temple-and-buddhist-cultural-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2009\/01\/sunday-at-chua-tu-hieu-temple-and-buddhist-cultural-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday at Chua Tu Hieu Temple and Buddhist Cultural Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/broadwayfillmore\/TheBuddhistCulturalCenterBuffaloNY01112009#\">click here for full view of pics<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I met with Victoria Thuy of the Chua Tu Hieu Temple and Buddhist Cultural Center on Fillmore Avenue.  Victoria teaches language at the center and she gave me the grand tour&#8230;see photos above. <\/p>\n<p>Honestly&#8230;it was an experience I will never forget.  The center and temple are both a big part of the local Vietnamese community in Buffalo and WNY which is between 7000-8000 people strong&#8230;B-F has about 500.  It attracts people from all around WNY.  Everyone I met was fantastic&#8230;the older woman of the congregation cooking in the kitchen were especially welcoming&#8230;in a way, it reminded me of when I was child and would enter the domain of a group of Polish speaking babcias cooking, the first thing they did was offer you food and a warm smile&#8230;these woman were exactly like that. \ud83d\ude42  <\/p>\n<p>The place is a hub of activity and on Sundays there is a Buddhist service at 10:30 followed by a traditional Vietnamese lunch prepared by the congregation.<\/p>\n<p>The original temple was on Smith Street in a home&#8230;the community outgrew it quickly and found a new home in the old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpdthenandnow.com\/pt8lg.jpg\">Buffalo Police Eighth Precinct at 647 Fillmore<\/a> a few years back.<\/p>\n<p>BFA is going to help promote some of their events and help bring some exposure to center which are unique cultural assets in B-F.  It will also be a way for the B-F community to connect with them as well.<\/p>\n<p>I will posting a couple of their upcoming events over the next week or so.<\/p>\n<p>A L I V E!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click here for full view of pics) Yesterday I met with Victoria Thuy of the Chua Tu Hieu Temple and Buddhist Cultural Center on Fillmore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[240,239,224],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-buddhist","tag-chua-tu-hieu-temple-and-buddhist-cultural-center","tag-vietnamese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-Di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}