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-	'''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.	+	'''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 ==		== Important Buddhist Sites ==
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	== Other Notes ==		== 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 ==		== References and Resources ==

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* Guǎngzhōu [[廣州]]
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'''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 ==

*

== References and Resources ==
* [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/hong_kong_environs_1915.jpg Hong Kong and Kowloon - Environs 1915], Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin

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Hong Kong 香港 - Revision history

Greg at 12:09, 21 April 2010

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