Fung Ying Seen Koon蓬瀛仙馆
- Type
- Temples and Abbeys (Gongguan)
- Location
- Hong Kong, China · Hong Kong · Fanling, North District, New Territories · 66 Pak Wo Road, Fanling, next to the MTR Fanling Station
- Coordinates
- 22.4905, 114.1383 Map ↗
- School
- Daoist Temples and Altars of Hong Kong and Macau, Longmen (Dragon Gate) Lineage of Quanzhen, Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism
- First built
- 1929 · Founded by He Jinyu, Chen Luankai, and others who came south from the Sanyuan Gong in Guangzhou; belongs to the Longmen Lineage of Quanzhen, with the Sanyuan Gong in Guangzhou as its ancestral temple
Overview
Fung Ying Seen Koon is located in Fanling, New Territories, founded in 1929 by Daoist masters He Jinyu, Chen Luankai, and others who had come south from the Sanyuan Gong in Guangzhou; it belongs to the Longmen Lineage of Quanzhen Daoism, and its name draws on the meanings of "Penglai" and "Yingzhou," the isles of the immortals. Built along the hillside, its main hall, the Doushuai Gong, enshrines the Supreme Venerable Sovereign Laojun, Lü Chunyang, and Qiu Changchun, with an additional Yuanchen Hall (housing Doumu and the Sixty Sexagenary Year Deities), a scripture hall, and an ancestral shrine. In 1950 it adopted a board-and-supervisory-committee system of governance, and in 1972 it registered as a limited company, giving it a relatively high degree of institutionalized management among Hong Kong's Daoist halls. The Seen Koon has been an important force in building Daoist digital resources for the Chinese-speaking world: it established the Daoist Culture Centre Database in 1999, runs the website daoinfo.org and the bilingual (Chinese-English) Encyclopedia of Taoism, publishes the magazine Hongdao, and funds the collation of the Daoist Canon and academic exchange across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; it also founded the Hong Kong Taoist Music Orchestra in 1996 and launched the Tao Communication television channel in 2004. It further runs a home for the aged, a kindergarten, and free medical services.
Highlights
- Doushuai Gong
- Yuanchen Hall with the Sixty Sexagenary Year Deities
- Daoist Culture Centre Database (daoinfo.org, 1999)
- Hong Kong Taoist Music Orchestra
- Hongdao magazine