This temple provides shelter and the final resting stop for a large bronze Buddha statue from Asia. Honoring the Buddha, Poon Design designed a simple, historical form that provides a spiritual backdrop that is both calm and theatrical, both classical and contemporary. Community labor hand crafted the building through authentic heavy timber construction methods. This methodology transforms large tree trunks into extraordinary structures, without modern techniques of fabrication. Laborious carpentry from Bodhi Path Center’s woodworking artisans features scribed carpentry, and pegged mortise and tenon. Our project has been personally blessed by Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Shamarpa.

On the 400-acre grounds of this Buddhist retreat property, this standing seam copper roof Buddha Pavilion sits atop a 150-foot tall hill of trees native to the Shenadoah Valley. The diverse paths of the journey up the hill is as significant as the final destination, this temple.

This is the second of five projects for this Buddhist retreat property. Nearby, a meditation retreat house, also by Poon Design, is tucked neatly into a gentle hillside, neatly within the trees.

Photography by Mark Ballogg, Bodhi Path and Poon Design.

This temple provides shelter and the final resting stop for a large bronze Buddha statue from Asia. Honoring the Buddha, Poon Design designed a simple, historical form that provides a spiritual backdrop that is both calm and theatrical, both classical and contemporary. Community labor hand crafted the building through authentic heavy timber construction methods. This methodology transforms large tree trunks into extraordinary structures, without modern techniques of fabrication. Laborious carpentry from Bodhi Path Center’s woodworking artisans features scribed carpentry, and pegged mortise and tenon. Our project has been personally blessed by Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Shamarpa.

On the 400-acre grounds of this Buddhist retreat property, this standing seam copper roof Buddha Pavilion sits atop a 150-foot tall hill of trees native to the Shenadoah Valley. The diverse paths of the journey up the hill is as significant as the final destination, this temple.

This is the second of five projects for this Buddhist retreat property. Nearby, a meditation retreat house, also by Poon Design, is tucked neatly into a gentle hillside, neatly within the trees.

Photography by Mark Ballogg, Bodhi Path and Poon Design.

This temple provides shelter and the final resting stop for a large bronze Buddha statue from Asia. Honoring the Buddha, Poon Design designed a simple, historical form that provides a spiritual backdrop that is both calm and theatrical, both classical and contemporary. Community labor hand crafted the building through authentic heavy timber construction methods. This methodology transforms large tree trunks into extraordinary structures, without modern techniques of fabrication. Laborious carpentry from Bodhi Path Center’s woodworking artisans features scribed carpentry, and pegged mortise and tenon. Our project has been personally blessed by Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Shamarpa.

On the 400-acre grounds of this Buddhist retreat property, this standing seam copper roof Buddha Pavilion sits atop a 150-foot tall hill of trees native to the Shenadoah Valley. The diverse paths of the journey up the hill is as significant as the final destination, this temple.

This is the second of five projects for this Buddhist retreat property. Nearby, a meditation retreat house, also by Poon Design, is tucked neatly into a gentle hillside, neatly within the trees.

Photography by Mark Ballogg, Bodhi Path and Poon Design.

This temple provides shelter and the final resting stop for a large bronze Buddha statue from Asia. Honoring the Buddha, Poon Design designed a simple, historical form that provides a spiritual backdrop that is both calm and theatrical, both classical and contemporary. Community labor hand crafted the building through authentic heavy timber construction methods. This methodology transforms large tree trunks into extraordinary structures, without modern techniques of fabrication. Laborious carpentry from Bodhi Path Center’s woodworking artisans features scribed carpentry, and pegged mortise and tenon. Our project has been personally blessed by Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Shamarpa.

On the 400-acre grounds of this Buddhist retreat property, this standing seam copper roof Buddha Pavilion sits atop a 150-foot tall hill of trees native to the Shenadoah Valley. The diverse paths of the journey up the hill is as significant as the final destination, this temple.

This is the second of five projects for this Buddhist retreat property. Nearby, a meditation retreat house, also by Poon Design, is tucked neatly into a gentle hillside, neatly within the trees.

Photography by Mark Ballogg, Bodhi Path and Poon Design.

This temple provides shelter and the final resting stop for a large bronze Buddha statue from Asia. Honoring the Buddha, Poon Design designed a simple, historical form that provides a spiritual backdrop that is both calm and theatrical, both classical and contemporary. Community labor hand crafted the building through authentic heavy timber construction methods. This methodology transforms large tree trunks into extraordinary structures, without modern techniques of fabrication. Laborious carpentry from Bodhi Path Center’s woodworking artisans features scribed carpentry, and pegged mortise and tenon. Our project has been personally blessed by Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Shamarpa.

On the 400-acre grounds of this Buddhist retreat property, this standing seam copper roof Buddha Pavilion sits atop a 150-foot tall hill of trees native to the Shenadoah Valley. The diverse paths of the journey up the hill is as significant as the final destination, this temple.

This is the second of five projects for this Buddhist retreat property. Nearby, a meditation retreat house, also by Poon Design, is tucked neatly into a gentle hillside, neatly within the trees.

Photography by Mark Ballogg, Bodhi Path and Poon Design.

This temple provides shelter and the final resting stop for a large bronze Buddha statue from Asia. Honoring the Buddha, Poon Design designed a simple, historical form that provides a spiritual backdrop that is both calm and theatrical, both classical and contemporary. Community labor hand crafted the building through authentic heavy timber construction methods. This methodology transforms large tree trunks into extraordinary structures, without modern techniques of fabrication. Laborious carpentry from Bodhi Path Center’s woodworking artisans features scribed carpentry, and pegged mortise and tenon. Our project has been personally blessed by Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Shamarpa.

On the 400-acre grounds of this Buddhist retreat property, this standing seam copper roof Buddha Pavilion sits atop a 150-foot tall hill of trees native to the Shenadoah Valley. The diverse paths of the journey up the hill is as significant as the final destination, this temple.

This is the second of five projects for this Buddhist retreat property. Nearby, a meditation retreat house, also by Poon Design, is tucked neatly into a gentle hillside, neatly within the trees.

Photography by Mark Ballogg, Bodhi Path and Poon Design.

This temple provides shelter and the final resting stop for a large bronze Buddha statue from Asia. Honoring the Buddha, Poon Design designed a simple, historical form that provides a spiritual backdrop that is both calm and theatrical, both classical and contemporary. Community labor hand crafted the building through authentic heavy timber construction methods. This methodology transforms large tree trunks into extraordinary structures, without modern techniques of fabrication. Laborious carpentry from Bodhi Path Center’s woodworking artisans features scribed carpentry, and pegged mortise and tenon. Our project has been personally blessed by Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Shamarpa.

On the 400-acre grounds of this Buddhist retreat property, this standing seam copper roof Buddha Pavilion sits atop a 150-foot tall hill of trees native to the Shenadoah Valley. The diverse paths of the journey up the hill is as significant as the final destination, this temple.

This is the second of five projects for this Buddhist retreat property. Nearby, a meditation retreat house, also by Poon Design, is tucked neatly into a gentle hillside, neatly within the trees.

Photography by Mark Ballogg, Bodhi Path and Poon Design.