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).
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]
19°16′03″N 155°28′05″W / 19.2676°N 155.4680°W