Hong Kong Tung Po Lo Wai Village Monastery
Tung Po Lo Wai Village Monastery is located in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong Thousand Buddha Mountain foothills, it is a follow China's Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the construction of the temple Putuo Temple. It is founded by Mau Fung in 1932. Monastery monastery by monks has been operated in the past have been very few people know this monastery, so the environment is very quiet. Until the return before due to operational difficulties, in order to avoid Monastery end, he handed over to the Chinese Temples Committee to take over the management of the contractor. Later, after vigorous propaganda, visitors now come to visit very much, and both inside and outside the monastery also renovated, but has lost its quiet beauty.
history
Tung Po Monastery in 1932, founded by Mau Fung. Mubong is Bobai, was born fourteen years Guangxu (1888), 29 years old ordained in Nanjing Bao Huashan Hui Habitat Temple (now known as Longchang Temple). 1924 mubong invited to visit Taiwan Lingquan Temple preaching, 1927 from Taiwan to Hong Kong to promote Buddhism, passing through the old village, one thousand Gordon Rock Hill, tour big puddle, its meteorological Broad and ideal place for the construction of the temple, is raising funds to build Temple. It began construction in 1930, two years from the calendar. Mubong saw one thousand and scenery along the rocky mountain near Mount Putuo some kind, so named as "Tung Po", but the one thousand Rock Hill renamed Thousand Buddha Mountain, a large puddle again called Triassic lake.
building style
Tung Po inside the Monastery built many pavilions: "Yuantong" rebuilt in 1949, is located in the east central part of Putuo Monastery, dedicated to Guanyin, the West three icons, Maitreya Buddha, Manjushri Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Buddha; in front of the "King Hall", "Guardian temple" and "GuanYinDian"; the rear is "Cangjing Ge"; the left is the "living room" and "church life extension"; right is "ancestral Hall" and "merit Hall"; still spread the "Thousand Buddha Mountain" everywhere "Indian sea Church," "Unter den Linden", "net business hall", "Wu Guan Tang", "West reception room," "meditation room", "cloud water Church", "Library "" living room "," bamboo Pavilion "and other buildings and attractions.
Collection of treasures
Tung Po's most famous so-called "big three": the "Big Buddha", "Ding" and "pan big." Behind the palace, a large tripod inscribed with "six hundred pounds of weight, there Sheng shop made" a few words, one of the rare instruments used for the Hong Kong Heritage. Jinian Mao Feng is the Master, the temple built in 1967, "Mao public memorial", containing treasures include:
Master Hong Yi inscription: Master Hong Yi Li Shutong common name, early study in Japan, the former monk famous musicians and artists;
Lingnan School painters Chao Shao-Gao Jianfu and the "Five-character-linked" and "bird";
Japan's Emperor Hirohito coming to a decision of "Jin Can five yellow satin dress": 1924 Mau Fung was invited to Taiwan Keelung Lingquan Temple preaching, stay in Taiwan for three years, preaching preaching, Jones converted four million people. Japan was Taiwan governor and officials also went to listen through, and reported the matter to the Japanese emperor, edict gift Mau Fung Jin Yi a bad five, 300 years Sangha is the first outside Japan was this Hymn.
Scenic Area Address: Lo Wai Lo Wai Road, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong 168
Car lines: MTR Tsuen Wan Line, Tsuen Wan Station and take the green minibus to 81