Bay Area’s newest Buddhist temple a sprawling testament to perseverance

Under a cloudless, Kodachrome-blue sky Sunday, nuns and monks with close-shaved heads paraded in saffron and lavender robes, flanked by lines of women in brightly colored dresses carrying orange flowers. The technicolor procession marched forward to the rhythmic chime of a bell, slowly gathering under the flared eaves of the Bay Area’s newest Buddhist temple.

There, the group commemorated the grand opening of the Tâm Từ Metta Vietnamese Buddhist temple – among the largest in the Bay Area — on the southern edge of Morgan Hill.