Wood Valley Templeis aTibetan Buddhisttemple located five minutes abovePahala[1]on theBig Islandof Hawaii.[2]Its Tibetan name isNechung Dorje Drayang Ling(Tibetan:གནས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་གཡང་གླིང,Wylie:gnas-chung rdo-rje brag-g.yang gling).
History
editThe temple was built in 1902 as aNichiren Buddhisttemple. 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 theNechung lineage,aNyingmalineage of Tibetan Buddhism associated with theNechung Oracle,in order to start a center for Buddhist study and meditation on the island.[2]
Citations
editReferences
edit- Anon (n.d.)."Explore Ka'u above Pahala".Kaucoffeefestival.Ka'u Coffee Festival with support from Hawaii Tourism.Retrieved2021-07-01.
- Valentine, Karen (2020)."Wood Valley Temple and its Fascinating Historical Journey".Ke Ola Magazine(Sept-Oct 2020).Retrieved2021-07-01.
Further reading
edit- 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.ISBN978-1643883991.Retrieved2021-07-01.A book about Nechung Rinpoche who founded the temple.
External links
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