Hong Kong Po Lin Monastery
Po Lin Monastery, a Buddhist temple is one of Hong Kong, Hong Kong is also a tourist attraction, located at Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, New Territories, ranging between Nei Lak Shan and Phoenix Mountain. Formerly known as the big temple Maopeng from Dayton repair, three big Yue and Yue Ming Zen China Jiangsu Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple was built in 1906 (that is, the Qing Guangxu three years). Until 1924, the first generation abbot monk Ji repair officially named Po Lin Monastery.
In the 1950s when the post of Po Lin Monastery, Weina and West Church St. a monk, go Dharma, passing Tei Tong Tsai and Ngong Ping Road, often hard to see the monks masonry sand, then a St. questioning, the person said to play a temple, a holy deeply moved that got funds to help in the construction of the temple.
Originally, the name of the holy monk Wu Ming is a dialogue of the Master, he created dojo in Tei Tong Tsai in 1955, that is the beginning of Po Lam Monastery built in the palace. A year later, a holy monk Wu Ming take over the death of Master of Management temple. The early 1980s, the temple built in the Main Hall, incense, worshipers flock.
Po Lin Monastery in Hong Kong for the first four Buddhist temple. For decades, hard business, building magnificent temples so that today, there are palaces and stately Main Hall of mighty kings hall and so on. The temple offers live, so that visitors go to Phoenix Mountain to watch the sunrise or short Kiyonaga. Muyu hilltop monastery of St. Paul is on, there is a newly built the world's largest copper statue, known as the Tian Tan Buddha. Like the design and production by the China Aerospace Science and Technology, the total height of nearly 34 meters, a combination of religious art and cutting-edge technology of crystalline product. Buddha three base, an exhibition gallery and so on, there are a large bell, carved statues and scriptures and so on. The clock is controlled by a computer, beating once every seven minutes, a total of 108 times for people "to lift 108 kinds of trouble."
Located in the middle of the Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island of Hong Kong, Ngong Ping altitude of 400 meters plains, from where you can view the Phoenix Mountain (934 meters). Surrounded by mountains, Gangluan downs, excellent scenery, its south Phoenix Mountain is a good place to view the sunrise. Po Lin Monastery, founded in 1924, although only 70 years, but beautiful building scale, terrain environment, the "Southern Buddhist country," said, pushed for the first four Buddhist temple in Hong Kong. Its main hall dedicated to the Buddha III, representing the past, present and the afterlife. Po Lin Monastery before there is a square, in the square built a small altar three imitation of the Beijing Tiantan Huanqiu do foil for the Big Buddha hill opposite. Temple has a four-poster on the third floor of the three towering pillar stone archway. Median transverse arch plaque engraved "the PLM" words. After the arch, there is a Lin Yin corridor leading to the gate of the temple, the temple gates in the form of very characteristic, its lower part is a tall stone, the audience provision of three coupons doorway. Stone surrounded by a railing around the middle of the table to build Shan Yanxie summit three main hall, gorgeous spectacular. It is created by three monks, at first just a big Maopeng Po Lin Monastery, founded in 1924. Development to the present, the Po Lin Monastery incense still thriving, still covered with stately Main Hall, King hall and the world's largest bronze Buddha Big Buddha and so on.
Scenic Area Address: Hong Kong Ngong Ping, Lantau Island District
Car lines: after Pier in Central, ride the ferry to Lantau Island, then take the No. 2 bus takes you directly to the Po Lin Monastery