What was the nickname of the founder of Heaven's Gate?
Heaven's Gate (religious group) Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian group based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985). On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of thirty-nine members of the group who had participated in a mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp.
Kaisando A kaisandō (開山堂 , kaisan-dō ) , also termed the Founder's Hall, is a temple structure in a Japanese Buddhist monastery complex or other temple where an image (or images) of the founding abbot and other significant teachers and Buddha ancestors are kept, along with a memorial slab (J. ihai). Sometimes also referred to as the Patriarch Hall (J. "soshido") or Reflection Hall (J. "Eishitsu"), this building holds memorial services yearly on the anniversary of the death of the founding abbot.