Welcome to
The Nirvana Temple!

Our Goal: to bring peace and healing to the community, the world and charity work where it is needed.

The Nirvana Temple is the real-life dream of Dr. May Trieu, located on St Thomas, USVI overlooking Mandahl Salt Pond. Temple construction began three years ago and is still a work in progress.

If you would like to see what the Temple offers, go to "Up Coming Events", to offer your help in the form of your time and financial contributions go to "How To Support Us". To join our mailing list and give us feedback, go to "Contact Us" and fill out our Web Form. To see images and video of the Temple visit our "Image & Video" galleries. Go to "Buddhist History" for a brief explanation of Buddhism.

I, May Trieu, am an acupuncturist/physician living in St. Thomas island in the United States Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.

My lifetime dream is coming to its realization: to found the Nirvana Temple which is dedicated to honor my mother's love and compassion. Love and compassion are the fundamentals of our philosophy of Buddism...
  
I plan to invite skilled mediators and peace makers of international notoriety to offer instruction in the promotion of peace and healing in the community and world.  Short and long term retreats will be organized to promote balance of body, mind and spirit...
  
My family and I have doing  some charity projects in the villages of Phu Tam, south of Viet Nam for the last ten years: building roads, bridges, wells, schools, clinics, temples... we go back there every year.  The Nirvana Temple hopes to take over and continue the charity project but also to extend to different countries in the future .
  
So far we have spend over 3 million dollars for our temple construction : retreat house, guest quarter and temple.  We started 4 years ago and expect to finish this year.
  
Indeed it is an international style temple: Chinese, French. Mediterranean, Caribbean... since we are a temple of love and compassion, we want to welcome everyone from every racial and religious background.
 
I extremely grateful for the great support from my loving family, friends, members of the temple, volunteers and many others.  I am very thankful to those who have allowed me to help them and to my loyal patients.  Any one or organization who would like to make any monetary and other contribution to our temple will be highly appreciated and needed.
  
Certainly I most grateful to my great grandparents for their generous contributions to their community and the world, certainly they have been my inspiration, and to the teachings of Buddhahood.
  
At this time, we have meditations classes: QI GONG and other mediatation classes taught by myself; Stellar Times Yoga taught by Sharon Treinkman, R.Y.T; Ashtanga Yoga taught by Grace Tuma, M.A...vegetarians pot luck meals, Sundays classes...

May Trieu of the Nirvana Temple in St. Thomas