Pung Loi Long Yuen, Tai Po蓬莱阆苑（大埔吕祖庙）
- Type
- Temples and Abbeys (Gongguan)
- Location
- Hong Kong, China · Hong Kong · Tai Po, New Territories · Pun San Chau Village, Wun Yiu, Tai Po
- Coordinates
- 22.4317, 114.1704 Map ↗
- School
- Daoist Temples and Altars of Hong Kong and Macau
- First built
- Mid-1960s · Founded by a female Daoist master known as 'Yi Gu,' who first set up an altar in Sham Shui Po before relocating to Pun San Chau, Tai Po
Overview
Pung Loi Long Yuen stands in Pun San Chau Village, on the slopes of Wun Yiu, Tai Po, in the New Territories, dedicated primarily to Lü Dongbin and known locally as the Lüzu Temple. It was founded in the mid-1960s by a female Daoist master known as 'Yi Gu' ('Second Aunt'), who first set up an altar in Sham Shui Po before relocating to its present site in the Tai Po hills. The temple is built into the hillside and modest in scale; it preserves a typical trajectory of small postwar Hong Kong Daoist altars moving from the urban area to the hills of the New Territories, and is also an example of a hall founded and led by a woman — quite a few postwar Hong Kong Daoist halls were founded by vegetarian laywomen (zhaigu) or female Daoist masters, and their forms of organization and transmission are of particular interest to scholars of popular religion. This temple has no heritage-grading record. To avoid confusion: this temple, the 'Pung Ying Kok' predecessor of Shang Sin Chun Tong in Kowloon Tong, and the Fung Ying Seen Koon in Fanling have similar-sounding names but no affiliation with one another, and must be recorded separately.
Highlights
- Founded by the female Daoist master 'Yi Gu'
- Moved from the urban area to the hills of the New Territories
- A small Daoist altar