Yeshe Nyingpo
Between Hilt, California, and Ashland, Oregon

North of Hilt, California, on an old country road -- the first road across the Siskiyou Mountains, actually -- can be found Yeshe Nyingpo, a Buddhist temple. I knew it was there -- I lived in Ashland, Oregon, just up the road, for several years -- and in fact had driven by it many times, but had never gone up the driveway which says no trespassing to the temple itself. You can't see it from the road.

The flags rustle in the wind and make a loud, constant sound; I guess that's prayers or something. Here's a prayer wheel. It doesn't turn, but as you walk around it, that's the same as if you were stationary and it turned. (See: Einstein's Theory of Relativity.)

A mural on the wall behind the prayer wheel. And, below, one of the three statues at the temple.

Below is the monastery high on the hill.

I really don't know enough to comment on this temple, except to say that it certainly is colorful.

Photos and text ©D.L. Mark 2002

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