Zu Lai Temple

Zu Lai Temple
Templo Zu Lai (如來寺)
The Zu Lai Temple
Religion
Affiliation	Fo Guang Shan
Location
Location	Cotia, São Paulo
State	São Paulo
Country	Brazil
Geographic coordinates	23° 35' 13" S 46° 52' 59" O
Architecture
Completed	2003
Website
www.templozulai.org.br

The Zu Lai Temple (in Chinese, 如來寺, in Portuguese, "Templo Zu Lai", lit. Tathāgata Temple) is a Buddhist temple in Cotia, São Paulo, Brazil. It is the largest Buddhist temple in South America with 10,000 square meters of constructed area, inside an area of approximately 150,000 square meters.^[1] It is a branch temple of the Fo Guang Shan order in Taiwan, practicing the Mahāyāna branch of Buddhism. The Zu Lai Temple states as its main objective the cultural and religious dissemination of the Buddhist Tradition, whilst trying to reach to the general population the teachings of traditional Buddhist education, culture and meditation.^[2]