Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery, Hong Kong. Very Strangest & Most Famous Buddhist Temple Of Hong Kong..

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Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery, Hong Kong

(LOCATION – 221 Pai Tau Village, Sha Tin, New Territories)

***ADMISSION – Free 

***OPENING HOURS – Monastery open 9am to 5-30pm daily. The monastery may close during heavy rain or when typhoon signal 8 or above is issued. Vegetarian Restaurant open 10-30am to 4pm or 5pm, closed Thursdays. 

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery (Man Fat Tsz), located Po Fook Hill at Pai Tau Village, Sha Tin in the New Territories is one of Hong Kong’s most famous Buddhist temples and popular tourist attractions. Founded in 1949 by the Reverend Yuet Kai, a Buddhist preacher originally from China, Sha Tin’s Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery takes the prize for Hong Kong’s strangest temple. Reached via a winding staircase up the hill behind Sha Tin crematorium, the way to the top is a rogues gallery of bizarre Buddha statues, each with its own peculiar expression, all of them remarkable in their strangeness.

When Yuet Kai died in 1965 at the age of 87, his embalmed body (if indeed it really is him), was seated in front of the altar in the main worship hall where it still sits today. Outside, there’s the Grade III listed, nine-storey red pagoda once featured on Hong Kong’s $100 note. There are statues of the Goddess of Mercy, white elephants, blue lions, and a terrace of 18 more representations of the Buddha’s most revered students. There’s even a vegetarian restaurant should you find yourself overcome by hunger amidst all the weirdness.

The nine-storey pagoda can be climbed by an internal spiral staircase. At each level are window ledges on which sit Buddha statues and from the top level panoramic views over Sha Tin can be glimpsed. The pagoda achieved some notoriety when, in 2001, it was selected to represent the symbol of Hong Kong featured on the HK$100 banknote.

**WARNING - Monks begging for money are known to operate in the area around the monastery. These are fake monks and should be avoided. The Hong Kong Buddhist Association has confirmed genuine devotees are not allowed to beg in Hong Kong. The situation is being monitored by police and there have been some arrests. Most of those arrested were found to have come from mainland China.