Byodo-In Temple

This guide to Byodo-In Temple in Honolulu opens with the deposed Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, who died in exile in Honolulu in 1989 while his family kept his casket in a mausoleum overlooking these koi ponds. It traces how this replica of an eleventh-century Kyoto temple was built in 1968, marking a century since the first Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii. Listen for the towering gilded Buddha inside and the three-ton bronze bell visitors strike once for peace.