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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Wood Valley Temple

Wood Valley Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist temple located five minutes above Pahala on the Big Island of Hawaii. 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.

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.

Citations

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

19°16′03″N 155°28′05″W / 19.2676°N 155.4680°W / 19.2676; -155.4680