Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery
Singapore's largest Buddhist monastery, founded in 1921, with pagodas, a columbarium, and a healing monk's legacy.
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This guide to Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery in Singapore begins in 1921, when a monk named Zhuan Dao arrived with nowhere for fellow monks from China to stay, and a businessman's donated hillside jungle became Singapore's first traditional Chinese monastery. It follows Zhuan Dao's second calling as a free healer for the local Chinese community, his death during the Japanese Occupation, and how his successor rebuilt the grounds with a columbarium in the postwar years. Listen for the story behind Bright Hill's sprawling pagodas and prayer halls as you walk the grounds.
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