Hong Kong 香港

Hong Kong 香港 Other names include: Xiānggǎng (Modern Standard Mandarin Pronunciation)

Nearby Locations: Guǎngzhōu 廣州

Southern China Region

Geography Portal

Hong Kong 香港 was a sparsely-populated island just off the coast of Guǎngdōng 廣東 province until it was occupied by the British in the 1840s and later ceded to them as a result of the Opium War. It developed through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a key economic and cultural entrepôt.

Important Buddhist Sites

• Chi Lin Nunnery 志蓮淨苑 was built in Kowloon 九龍 in 1934
• Po Lin Monastery 寶蓮禪寺 was founded in 1906 and is located on Lantau Island 爛頭
• Tsing Shan Monastery 青山禪院 is located at the foot of Castle Peak 青山
• The Dharma Propagation Hermitage 弘法精舍 was active here from 1939 to 1940

Other Notes

• The periodical Voice of Awakening 覺音 was published here
• Tánxū 倓虛 died here in 1963
• Bǎojìng 寶靜 lectured here and established a branch of the Propagation Society 弘法學社 here in the late 1920s

References and Resources

• Hong Kong and Kowloon - Environs 1915, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin