Wood Valley Temple

Wood Valley Temple near Pahala, Hawaii

Wood Valley Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist temple located five minutes above Pahala ^[1] on the Big Island of Hawaii. ^[2] Its Tibetan name is Nechung Dorje Drayang Ling (Tibetan : གནས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་གཡང་གླིང, Wylie : gnas-chung rdo-rje brag-g.yang gling).

History

The temple was built in 1902 as a Nichiren Buddhist temple. Originally built closer to Pahala, the temple was moved in 1925 to its current location after a major flood in 1917 damaged the temple. ^[2]

In the mid-1960s, the temple was abandoned after the Ka'u Sugar company ended their operations in the area. In 1973, the temple was leased to the Nechung lineage, a Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism associated with the Nechung Oracle, in order to start a center for Buddhist study and meditation on the island. ^[2]

Citations

1. Anon (n.d.).
2. Valentine (2020).

References

• Anon (n.d.). "Explore Ka'u above Pahala". Kaucoffeefestival.com. Ka'u Coffee Festival with support from Hawaii Tourism. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
• Valentine, Karen (2020). "Wood Valley Temple and its Fascinating Historical Journey". Ke Ola Magazine (Sept-Oct 2020). Retrieved 2021-07-01.

Further reading

• Schwabe, Marya Waifoon (2020). Road to Freedom: A Journey from Occupied Tibet: The True Story of the Search, Discovery, and Escape of a Reincarnate Lama. Luminare Press. ISBN   978-1643883991 . Retrieved 2021-07-01. A book about Nechung Rinpoche who founded the temple.

External links

• Official website of the Wood Valley Temple & Guest House

19°16′03″N155°28′05″W / 19.2676°N 155.4680°W / 19.2676; -155.4680