Wisdom Path
Thirty-eight towering timber columns inscribed with the Heart Sutra, arranged in an infinity loop on a Lantau hillside.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Wisdom Path on Lantau in Hong Kong begins with a puzzle: one of the timber columns arranged across this hillside carries no text at all. It traces the life of Jao Tsung-i, the scholar known as the last Renaissance man of Chinese civilization, and his habit of copying the Heart Sutra by hand as meditation, before his 2001 gift to the city grew into this monumental installation shaped like a figure of eight. Climb to the highest point of the path, where the columns end, to see it for yourself.
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