Po Lin Monastery area
The Po Lin Monastery was initially known as the Big Hut In 1906 Zen masters Da Yue Dun Xiu and Yue Ming arrived at Ngong Ping Lantau Island from the Jin Shan Monastery of Zhe Jiang They found that stretch of flat land which was nestled so snuggly among the mountain an ideal site for building a monastery So they toiled and moiled and started to construct a small stone house then followed by a big hut and hence a sacred place was developed Monks from the ten quarters heard of the news and flocked in to the sacred place They grew vegetables there procured the instruments for rituals and eked out a living a primordial monastic discipline was thus established
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