Hong Kong and Kowloon Fuk Tak Buddhist Association, Buddhist temple in Cheung Sha Wan, Hong Kong.
Hong Kong and Kowloon Fuk Tak Buddhist Association is a Buddhist temple located on a hillside between Tai Po Road and Ching Cheung Road in Sham Shui Po District. The complex contains prayer halls, meditation spaces, and Buddhist sculptures distributed across its grounds.
The site began as a small Tudigong shrine, Fuk Tak Pak Kung, beside To Lei Yuen in So Uk Village. In the 1930s Chaozhou migrants settled nearby and worshipped there. During the Japanese occupation the community asked the earth god by divination whether to return to Chaozhou; the answer was "stay", and all survived. The shrine was later moved repeatedly, for Lee Cheng Uk Estate, Caritas Medical Centre and Tai Hang Tung, before residents rebuilt it on Ching Cheung Road after the god appeared in a villager's dream.
The temple's name comes from Fuk Tak, the earth god whose small shrine once stood by To Lee Yuen near So Uk Village. On the 29th day of the third lunar month, Fuk Tak's birthday, and the 14th day of the tenth month, Jigong's birthday, vegetarian meals are served from 11 am to 2 pm, with shuttle buses leaving So Uk Estate every 15 minutes.
The grounds climb a wooded valley from Ching Cheung Road up to Tai Po Road, so expect stepped paths and a slope. To arrive, take a bus toward So Uk Estate and walk in the direction of Caritas Medical Centre, then cross the footbridge; KMB routes 72 and 81 also stop at Yee Tung Garden on Tai Po Road. The Fuk Tak Road concrete path, donated by the Hui Sai Kit family, links the temple to the footbridge by the hospital.
Look for the Ling Gui Li Fo sculpture group: a line of turtles carved along the slope, climbing toward the hill guarded by Guanyin. Nearby, the Fuk Tak Road, a concrete tree-lined path funded by the Hui Sai Kit family, links the temple grounds to the pedestrian footbridge beside Caritas Medical Centre.
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