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May We Gather: A National Buddhist Memorial Ceremony for Asian American Ancestors
On Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 at 4pm PDT, the first national Buddhist memorial service in response to anti-Asian violence will be livestreamed from Higashi Honganji Temple in Los Angeles, which was vandalized earlier this year. The event, called "May We Gather," will take place exactly seven week, or 49 days, since the Atlanta shootings that claimed the lives of eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, including 63-year-old Yong Ae Yue, who was Buddhist. In many Asian cu