Chi Lin Nunnery

Chi Lin Nunnery (志蓮淨院) is a Buddhist nunnery in Diamond Hill, New Kowloon. The present-day buildings have been rebuilt in the year 2000 and their style is of Tang architecture. Its buildings are the only ones to be built with wooden rooftops in modern Hong Kong, without the use of a single nail in its construction. This is based on a unique architectural style from the Tang Dynasty which uses special interlocking systems cut into the wood for construction.

Covering a space of 30,000 square meters, Chi Lin Nunnery has strikingly beautiful statues of the Sakyamuni Buddha, the goddess of mercy Guanyin and other bodhisattvas. These statues are made from gold, clay, wood and stone.

This is the 1st time we visited Chi Lin Nunnery, without a prior intention beforehead. Initially we planned to go to Hollywood Plaza, because this place offer 3 hr free parking if one spend HKD200 or above in the arcade. Since the time was still early for dinner, we think maybe it's good to walk around the nearby Chi Lin Nunnery, which is just 10 min walking distance from the plaza..

The beautiful garden in front of the nunnery is open to the public free of charge.



This garden looks more like a Japanese Garden?

We entered the nunnery via west gate...

"wow", I feel impressed when I see this beautiful internior. It's really out of my expectation. ..

This lamp will certainly gives me a warm feeling in the dark, so does the man stood besides it.

The barrier of the pond is not a safe design for kids...see how easy William could have fell in?

Vincent just couldn't resist to touch the dragon head....

So does William...

Every plant in this area grows gracefully healthy.

Chi Lin Nunnery is founded in the 1930s to provide religious, cultural, educational, and elderly care services to the Hong Kong community.

This is the center of the nunnery. The public can go inside the temple before 4.30pm. Unfortunately, we were a bit late that day. I want to go there again to see its inside.

A different angle to view the Chi Li Nunnery.

I believe this "si-fu" was telling the history to this couple. They stood there for a long time. Until, it aroused my interest to want to listen too. But just when I go near them, it's over.

Wow, this temple was really built without using a single nail. How intelligent the ancient architectural was...

a Zen-style lotus-pond rock garden

I seldom see the purple color lotus flower. It's kind of rare...

An almost blossom white Lotus flower

I like this lamp, I would like to put it in my garden one day, hehe....

We went back to the outside world through the east door.

East Door

The phased II is under construction and will be open to the public by end of this year. From the layout plan, I think it will be a very beautiful garden.

This Swedish like building is the administrative building, with a carteen at the ground floor to serve vegetarian foods and snacks.