Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Tourist attractions - Li Ka-shing spent 1.5 billion yuan to build the Tsz Shan Monastery, only supplying water without burning incense. What are the unique features of this temple?

Li Ka-shing spent 1.5 billion yuan to build the Tsz Shan Monastery, only supplying water without burning incense. What are the unique features of this temple?

There is a Tang Dynasty-style temple in Tai Po, Hong Kong-Tsz Shan Monastery, which took Mr. Li Ka-shing 1.5 billion yuan and nearly 1 years to build. It is very special that when visiting Guanyin in this temple, you are not allowed to burn incense, but you must use "water supply" instead. Besides this uniqueness, do you know what secrets are hidden in this temple?

1. You need to make an appointment in advance to visit.

Tsz Shan Monastery has been officially opened to the outside world. In order not to affect the nearby residents and the traffic in the area, it is necessary to make an appointment in advance to enter the temple, and it is open in eight periods to disperse the flow of people, with a daily limit of 4 to 5 people; Special festivals such as Buddha's Birthday, Guanyin Birthday and New Year will be open days, and tickets will be distributed, which is expected to receive about 6, people every day.

2. A bulletproof safe meditation room.

the whole Buddhist temple has an elegant environment, but it is luxurious and low-key. The building materials in the temple are very exquisite. The wood is made of rosewood imported from Africa, and the lotus-shaped covers of three Buddha statues in Ursa Major Hall are plated with 24K gold. However, the most talked about in Tsz Shan Monastery is not the imported rosewood marble, but the monks' dormitory with bulletproof glass and steel plates.

There are three dormitories in the temple. Five rooms on the second floor of one building are all equipped with bullet-proof glass, and some walls are also embedded with bullet-proof steel plates. The toilet door of one big room is also made of steel plates. Security facilities also include closed-circuit television, power grid, etc. It is said that the bulletproof facilities of these five rooms cost 4 million yuan. It is said that these five high-security rooms can be used by anyone in need, such as visiting elders and monk kings.

3. "Chocolate Zen".

In order to attract young people to understand Buddhism, Tsz Shan Monastery's mage also came up with a method of "chocolate meditation" instead of the traditional "tea meditation", by quietly tasting chocolate cakes and introspecting himself.

4. Bird habitat.

In Tsz Shan Monastery, there are branches of Bodhi sacred trees given by Sri Lankan President to Buddha's enlightenment place. Because 6% of the temple is green, it attracts 62 kinds of birds to live, and the temple has specially designed a bird watching map for tourists.

5. Where is Zen Gold?

Master Tsz Shan Monastery has a single fund for the temple, and Mr. Li Ka-shing will add the same amount to the support made by everyone in the Wuguantang merit box, which will be used as a charity fund in Tsz Shan Monastery to do some public welfare projects.

Tsz Shan Monastery is so kind to everyone. I hope that everyone will not come to travel, but really settle down to study and become attached to Buddhism, so that more people can enter Buddhism, understand Buddhism, and experience and feel a calm Zen state.