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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 ().

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.

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Further reading

  • A book about Nechung Rinpoche who founded the temple.

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