美国纽约上州的普特南郡肯特镇, 有块方圆468英亩的林地。林地中央, 湖光水色之旁,有座肃穆宁静的建筑, 那就是美国东部地区最大的佛寺,建造费用逾1.27亿美元,设计者是著名的建筑设计大师贝聿铭。这座寺院,出于美籍华裔人士、现年92岁高龄的沈家桢居士对美国的奉 Kent, Putnam County, Upper State, New York, USA, has 468 acres of woodland in a radius. In the middle of the woodland, beside the lakeshore, there is a quiet and tranquil building, the largest Buddhist temple in the eastern part of the United States, costing more than $ 127 million and designed by renowned architect IM Pei. The monastery, out of the Chinese-ethnic Chinese, 92-year-old shenjizhen layman to the United States