He established the Maitri Hospice at HSZC for students and friends dying of AIDS during the spread of the epidemic in the 1980s—the first Buddhist hospice of its kind in the United States.
He established the Maitri Hospice at HSZC to care for students and friends who were dying of AIDS during the epidemic in the 1980s, making it the first Buddhist hospice of its kind in the United States.