Puna Hongwanji Mission | A Pure Land Shin Buddhist temple on Hawaii Island

Hawaii District Ministers Association – Monthly Online Seminars for 2021

The Hawaii District Ministers Association (HDMA) will present monthly online seminars via Zoom on Saturdays for 2021. Register once and you will receive an email invitation for each of the seminars each month. Although your attendance for all of the seminars is encouraged, you can attend any class that interest you. The HDMA and Nembutsu

Temple Doors Open in June

The temple doors will open up on Sunday, June 6, 2021 for our weekly Sunday Service. We will continue to live stream the service on our Puna Hongwanji Facebook and YouTube pages. We will still follow safety protocols although more and more people are getting vaccinated. Anyone attending the in person service will be asked

Sunday In-Person and Online Service – “Like a Bird”

Please join us on Sunday, July 25, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. for our weekly Sunday service. Service is available in-person or online. Rev. Satoshi Kaʻimipono Tomioka will share the Dharma Message “Like a Bird”.

In-Person and Online Service – Subject to Change – July 18, 2021

Please join us in-person or online for our weekly Sunday Service. The Sunday Service on July 18, 2021 will begin at 9:00 a.m. Rev. Satoshi Ka’imipono Tomioka will share the Dharma Message “Subject to Change”. Please note that we are having some technical difficulties so we plan to only have this Sunday Service live streamed

Sunday In-Person and Online Service – “M&M”

We will have our Sunday Service in-person and online. Join us on July 4, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. Rev. Satoshi Kaʻimipono Tomioka will share the Dharma Message “M & M”.

Drive-Thru Bon Dance 2021 – July 10, 2021 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Puna Hongwanji presents…Drive-Thru Bon Dance For a second year we are unable to host our regular two nights of Bon Dance on our temple grounds. In 2020 we did a virtual bon dance. In 2021 we are doing a partial virtual bon dance and a live drive thru bon dance. We will have 4 dancing

Last weekly Wednesday Dharma Gathering – “Push or Pull”

Please join us on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. for our Wednesday Evening Zoom Dharma Gathering. The Dharma discussion will be “Push or Pull”. Around 7:45 p.m. Rev. Satoshi Kaʻimipono Tomioka will have the discussion in Japanese. 英語法話のすぐあとに、日本語法話もあります。 If you received the link before you can use the same link. If you need