Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Valley of the Temples Memorial Park is a memorial park located on the Windward (eastern) side of the Hawaiian island of O ahu. It is a vast area of lush, rolling green hills at the foot of the Ko olau mountains, overlooking the sleepy town of K ne ohe. Thousands of Buddhist, Shinto, Protestant and Catholic residents of Hawai i are buried in this memorial park. The park features the replica of a 12th. century Japanese Buddhist temple built in the late 1960s. Its name is Byodo-In Temple which translates to the Phoenix temple, because of the two majestic metal phoenixes along the top ends of the main temple. It is a recreation of the Buddhist temple in Uji, Japan. Inside the main part of the temple there is a 9 12 ft Buddha sitting on a gold leaf lotus.