{"id":3196,"date":"2019-03-19T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T03:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:39:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T09:39:52","slug":"2019-03-16-guided-tour-of-tung-lin-kok-yuen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/2019\/03\/19\/2019-03-16-guided-tour-of-tung-lin-kok-yuen\/","title":{"rendered":"[2019.03.16] Guided Tour of Tung Lin Kok Yuen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"column one-second\"><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Mar 16 (Sat) | Guided Tour of Tung Lin Kok Yuen<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[Buddhist landmark in Hong Kong]<br \/>\nOn March 16 (Sat), alumnus Dr Ernest Ng, HKU Mentor and CEO of Tung Lin Kok Yuen \u6771\u84ee\u89ba\u82d1 and his colleagues hosted a group of HKU mentors and mentees with an exclusive tour of this hidden gem in Happy Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Since its founding in 1935 by Lady Clara Hotung (\u4f55\u6771\u7235\u58eb\u592b\u4eba), countless nuns and girls have been educated at TLKY which originally housed a free school for girls and a petite ecole for Buddhist practice and learning.<\/p>\n<p>Everything in this monastery is captivating: the ingenious East-meet-West architecture with stained glass windows, Italian floor tiles, Buddhist statues and pagodas; the relics and antique couplets &amp; plaques calligraphed by historic luminaries such as Kang Youwei (\u5eb7\u6709\u70ba), Zhang Xueliang (\u5f35\u5b78\u826f), Sir Robert Hotung (\u4f55\u6771\u7235\u58eb), Ye Gongchuo (\u8449\u606d\u7dbd), and Dr Lai Tsi-hsi (\u8cf4\u969b\u7199\u592a\u53f2) , Reader and Head of HKU\u2019s Chinese Department when it was founded in 1927.<br \/>\nMentors and mentees were enthralled by the stories behind and by Lady Clara&#8217;s motto \u201cWhere there\u2019s a will there\u2019s a way\u201d (\u6709\u5fd7\u7adf\u6210), from which this magnificent living monument was born.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1ubxZHhGBJUSED_DSOtt3o9-dvR1YFsij\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PHOTOS<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"column one-second\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Group-Photo-Banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"705\" \/><\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 16 (Sat) | Guided Tour of Tung Lin Kok Yuen [Buddhist landmark in Hong Kong] On March 16 (Sat), alumnus Dr Ernest Ng, HKU Mentor and CEO of Tung Lin Kok Yuen \u6771\u84ee\u89ba\u82d1 and his colleagues hosted a group of HKU mentors and mentees with an exclusive tour of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mentorship-exclusive","category-whats_on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mentorship.hku.hk\/daao\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}