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Tin-Yau
Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 1165 Location: Germany
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 4:18 am Post subject: |
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Dear Jing, my I kindly ask you to post in english. This thread is in english and at least two people cant read what you are writing. Thanks! _________________ Water which is too pure has no fish. |
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Tin-Yau
Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 1165 Location: Germany
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 4:29 am Post subject: |
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yitian wrote: | With all your effort climbing far and high, do you consider one day visiting "The Great Wall", Heike ? |
Yitian, will you be my guide? Let`s go!
yitian wrote: | Beautiful statues, thanks Heike for finding all these nice places and taking photos for us to feel closer to HK . May I ask who is the first one (the golden statue) in this series ? |
No idea, just one of many, many statues along the way up to the temple. You have never been there, I guess. There are too many. It sure seems to be a happy one. I don`t know much about this kind of buddhism, tibetan yes. This is a different way of Buddha`s teachings.
Safran wrote: | These wonderful pics of Buddhist art....special moments and personal impressions....you should collect fo print a HK- Photo-Book, Heike (sorry, if I'm repeating myself ) |
Oh Helga, first I`m glad you like the pics!
I took so many photos. First it would be very hard to choose, second there would be a lot of photo books in my shelves. I rather not. It might be something different if it would be tibetan buddhism. _________________ Water which is too pure has no fish. |
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Tin-Yau
Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 1165 Location: Germany
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 5:57 am Post subject: |
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Here we go.
Today I went to the NT. Visited Miu Fat monastery. This is a thai style buddhist temple. I`ve been here only once on my first or second visit to HK, so over ten years ago.
Here you can see the entrance. I was not allowed to take photos inside the halls - which I respect, so ... I guess if you want to see the whole thing you have to visit it in person. It is very much worth a visit, btw.
This monastery is famous for it`s beautiful garden.
Does anyone know what kind of fly this is. Some kind of dragon fly?
This beauty let me get really close.
After that I went to Ching Chung Koon, a taoist temple. This temple has also a very beautiful garden.
There was a bonsai exhibition This is a little statue on a bonsai.
Inside the main hall. Hehe, in the mirror in the middle is my reflection.
Outside the main hall. These buildings are amazingly beautiful, full of ornaments and colourful.
And after that I went to the Che Kung temple near Tai Wai.
If you look at the woman who is standing on the right, you can imagine how tall this statue is.
_________________ Water which is too pure has no fish. |
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Safran
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 2612 Location: Austria
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Sooo impressive pics of various temples and figures
.....with wonderful coloured details.
Wish I could understamd better |
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ham
Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 1269 Location: Thailand
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks again for the good pics.Heike
I went to Che Kung temple on my this trip and I was surprised Hk people can listen and talk with me in thai language when I bought something there. |
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In The Mood For Leung
Joined: 13 Jan 2010 Posts: 361 Location: State of Nirvana, USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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Exquisite! _________________ There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
~Oscar Wilde |
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Tin-Yau
Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 1165 Location: Germany
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:12 am Post subject: |
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And the adventure continues, glad to have you all on board!
Today I went to Lantau to Discoverybay and hiked to Mui Wo via a Trappist Monastery, where I`ve never been before.
It took me about two hours and liters of sweat, and since it mostly was extremely steep, my knees were complaining a lot.
Entrance of a little park up there.
This little beauty did me a big favour and let me take a few photos.
The monastery in front and Peng Chau in the distance.
Nice view towards Silvermine Bay and Mui Wo.
The actual plan was to go afterwards to Po Lin Monatery and hike up to the Lantau Peak, but when I arrived it started to rain so I had to go back BUT this wasn`t bad at all!
See for yourself:
The view was so clear that I decided to go up to The Peak and give you what I promised to try - what a clear view.
But ... it got a lot better.
For a moment I had tears in my eyes because it is so beautiful.
I stood up there for about one hour and couldn`t take off my eyes, when I realized that it`s already totally dark. _________________ Water which is too pure has no fish. |
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yitian
Joined: 06 Jul 2011 Posts: 2174 Location: United States
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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jing wrote: | Tin-Yau wrote: | Inside the temple, nice painting.
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兜率宫
“熟讀老子道德經上下五千言知足不辱知止不殆;遠望粉嶺東山峰縱橫數十里得石之瘦得雲之魄。 ”
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Warm welcome jing
It is so lovely to see fan group here is expending, coming along a new one with in depth knowledge of Hong Kong, Chinese literature and history . I appreciate very much that you keyed in those lines franking Heike’s picture and beyond. These ancient Chinese words are difficult to translate properly, but at least we have the characters to do one’s own search online .
jing wrote: | yitian wrote: | ...May I ask who is the first one (the golden statue) in this series ? |
大概是沙田万佛寺的五百阿罗汉像其中的一尊吧,立于山路两旁,从山脚一直排列到山顶寺院,我猜:)
弱弱地问句:在这个网站说中文也行的吧? |
Thanks for pointing out the possibility of who may be this golden statue referring to , I shall do some search on the web...
Regarding to posting in Chinese, English is understood and therefore more appreciated by every fan here; however, we also see plenty articles etc. in Chinese posted - regardless, posting in Chinese is much better than posting nothing - some of our non-Chinese fans are pretty good in reading Chinese . |
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yitian
Joined: 06 Jul 2011 Posts: 2174 Location: United States
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Heike for continuously feeding us with beautiful pics of HK .
I see you have successfully hypnotized an exotic red dragonfly as well as a beautiful butterfly . |
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Eri
Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 876 Location: Japan
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Tin-Yau
Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 1165 Location: Germany
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:06 am Post subject: |
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Eri wrote: | As Jing wrote in Chinese, he is the one of 500 Arhat. |
Arhat! That is a phrase I can work with! Thanks Jing and Eri! _________________ Water which is too pure has no fish. |
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Tin-Yau
Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 1165 Location: Germany
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:49 am Post subject: |
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Sooo, another report. Sorry no report from yesterday last evening because I was waaayy to tired.
And I can explain why.
In the morning I decided to go to Cheung Chau, because sunday was Bun Carnival, this means the public can try to climb up the bun tower. Not that I`d like to climb up (this would have been a laugh) I hoped for some nice photos. But as I arrived on CC and saw those many many people, I made a sharp right turn and took the inter islands ferry from CC to Mui Wo. Maybe you remember, I have there some unfinished business in form of the Lantau Peak left. The weather was good 28 degrees, so I take a little hike ( "hike" I thought) up on that hill top.
The big Buddha got smaller and smaller, I got wetter and wetter ... it was exhausing.
On the way I asked people who were coming down how long they think it might take. One said in cantonese "half an hour", another one in english "about one hour" and added in cantonese and english "gaa yau (add oil), you can do it".
Eventually I came to some kind of plateau, the hilltop was the bump on the left, really close and saw those "steps" that`s no steps there is a distance in height sometimes of nearly a half meter.
Look for yourself ...
I felt like I have to vomit, my knees hurt and my heart was beating like hell. I realized I might still have to do 100 meters altitude, I took a break for about 15 minutes took a deep breath and "hiked" on. Btw, this was not a "hike" this was hill climbing.
In the end I was awarded a misty view and I did my very first hilltop - yay.
It`s been a long time since I pushed myself so much to my limits.
Of course I had my backpack with me (if Yuka and Agnes are around, they know about the weight) otherwise you wouldn`t be able to see those photos.
But the evening got much more relaxing. I got a message from Agnes and we went to Karaoke and had a little fun. Before you ask - NO I didn`t sing, at least not into the mike. _________________ Water which is too pure has no fish.
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Tin-Yau
Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 1165 Location: Germany
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Moving on to Monday - oh my god only one day left.
The first thing when I woke up this morning was muscle ache in my legs - like hell. I thought, maybe I can walk it off a bit - NO WAY!
OK, today I spent the whole day at The Peak - again you ask. Yes! Beautiful and clear view, I could not resist.
It would be boring to show you the same all the time I go up there and since I can go up there and each time I can find something new, I`ll show you also something new.
Beautiful plant, it wasn`t a blossom as I know it. The size is about a 2HK$ coin.
And this little one was amazing. Some men passing by saying in cantonese that it`s dead but it wasn`t.
Look how colorful. It was about 25cm.
This is the view from above Victoria Peak Garden.
Look for yourself how clear it was today.
As mentioned before, I have only one day left. Will leave wednesday morning at 01.30 am. Therefore I have no idea if I can post anything tomorrow, but will do - if you want to see it - when I`m back home. My plan is to go to Wong Tai Sin and Diamond Hill. _________________ Water which is too pure has no fish. |
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Safran
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 2612 Location: Austria
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:57 am Post subject: |
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HEIKE guess we all here hope, you'll send us pics till you depart (...given you manage)
Your "foto-eyes" are amazing .....seeing the beautiful little details....and the complete as well.
Your heavy Rucksack I think to know from Berlin.... last year
Wish you some more beautiful motives and moments....the last days. |
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Tin-Yau
Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 1165 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 3:53 am Post subject: |
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Today I went to Chi Lin nunnery and the garden next to it.
Main hall of the nunnery.
After Chi Lin I went to Wong Tai Sin temple.
It was terrible there, mandarin speaking people elbowing their way through the crowd. Carelessly with the incense. I was there for about 20 minutes, then I had to go. Please, don`t get me wrong. No offense to anyone here! This was an unpleasant experience. After all, this is/was a place of prayer and worship.
Wong Tai Sin
Afterwards I went to Kowloon Walled City Park.
A nice and quiet place.
Nice entrance (above) and pagoda (below).
Found something funny. Can a flame get dressed?! I can read the chinese characters and that`s not what it means.
And some ad in the MTR station.
That`s it friends. I have to pack my stuff tgether and get ready for the airport.
It was once again very nice to have you with me on this wonderful journey through my beloved HK.
If I have time, I`ll post some more pics of food. They all are on my mobile and I first have to transfer them onto my computer.
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