SHA TIN

The walk to reach the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery include climbing up some 400 steps. The path is lined with lifesize golden statues of Buddhas of all shapes. Those statues are called Arhans. The open ceremony of 500 Arhans was hold in 2002.

The forecourt is adorned with large and colourful statues of Buddhist deities and animals. A nine-storey pagoda stands opposite to the main worship hall. Climbing up its spiral stairway offers even stunning views of Sha Tin.

The main worship hall houses over 13 0000 Buddha statues of a similar height.

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery is dating to the 1950s and its main worship hall contains around 12800 Buddhas lining the walls.

Kwun Yam, Goddess of Mercy, can be represented in many incarnations such as protector of Children.

The forecourt is adorned with large and colourful statues of Buddhist deities and animals. The statue in the middle is an image of Kwun Yam showing her in her multiple arms form. It is said that she can have one thousand of arms. Most sculptures show only 42 arms. Two are regular arms, but each of the remaining 40 arms represents the 25 Buddhist worlds (40 x 25 = 1000).

The Goddess of Mercy Facing The Sea lies inside the pavilion. The Goddess of Mercy has power to take any shape in order to save those in distress, especially those working in the sea. So she sits facing the bay and the sea. Nowadays due to Sha Tin tremendous development as a New City, the statue is now facing the Shing Mun River.

To go to the Monastery upper part, visitors have to climb another path flanked by Chinese deity statues and Kwun Yam statues.

The God of Heavens is the header of the heaven. The Four "Diamond" Guardians clothed in armours stand on both sides of the main altar.