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Shaolin Temple 少林寺 (Dengfeng, Zhengzhou, Henan, China)
The Shaolin Temple, located in China’s Henan Province, has become well-known on a global scale in recent years for its martial arts and has subsequently enlarged its tourism efforts. Besides its activities in martial arts, the Shaolin Temple has also sought to establish itself as an academic institution of Buddhism and Chinese Buddhist medicine.
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Tuệ Tĩnh đường Hải Đức (Huế, Vietnam)
The organization Tuệ Tĩnh đường Hải Đức operates four free medical clinics in the Thừa Thiên Huế Province of Vietnam. Under the umbrella organization Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, these clinics have medically trained monks and nuns that use a combination of traditional Vietnamese medicine and Western medicine to treat hundreds of patients a day.
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Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation (Los Angeles, California USA)
Tzu Chi Medical Foundation (LA) serves its community by providing disaster relief and medical care to those in need. They have established a network of charitable clinics, mobile locations, and health fairs tailored to the needs of the community.
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Won Buddhism in Philadelphia
Transnational Korean organization brings modernized Korean Buddhism and traditional East Asian medicine to the Philadelphia suburbs.