Captain Amerika & Donny @ We Love HK: 20110813-ChingLeungNunnery-TibetanMonastery

屯門清涼法苑 + 極樂寺

Ching Leung Nunnery && Tibetan Monastery, Siu Hong, Tuen Mun
交通:
西鐵兆康站 F 出口, 對面虎地消防局可至
Shiu Hong station, West Rail, Exit F.

Walk from Fu Tei Fire Station

Album:
http://www.fotop.net/medalene/13aug11SiuHongTemple?page=1
http://www.fotop.net/medalene/13aug11SiuHongTemple?page=2
http://www.fotop.net/medalene/13aug11SiuHongTemple?page=3
http://www.fotop.net/medalene/13aug11SiuHongTemple?page=4
http://medalene.blogspot.com/2011/08/ching-leung-nunnery_13.html

Yue Lan Festival:
http://www.fotop.net/medalene/13aug11YueLan2011?page=1
http://www.fotop.net/medalene/13aug11YueLan2011?page=2

一早先乘西鐵線前往兆康站, 在F 出口起步.

けさ、西鉄で兆康駅（シュウホン）まで行って、出口Fからスタートした

We took a West Rail train and got off @ Siu Hong station. Then we started from Exit F.

在F 出口外, 下面是屯門公路, 由行人天橋步向對面, 會到達屯富路, 附近有虎地消防局, 對面便是"清涼法苑".

歩道橋を渡って、屯富路に着いた。近くに虎地消防局がある。むこうは清涼法苑（お寺）です。

Tuen Mun Road is just under Exit F. We walked cross it via the pedestrian bridge, and then we reached Tuen Fu Road at the back.
From there, we walked along Tuen Fu Road and we could see Fu Tei Fire station, Ching Leung Nunnery is just at the opposite side.

清涼法苑在此! 內有齋堂(假日才會營業), 電話仍是"0" 字(幸好仍未是"12"字頭)!!!!! 證明指示牌已有一段歷史, 而茶館早已倒閉了.

清涼法苑は目の前だ！ベジタリアンレストランはお寺の中です。でも、祝日と日曜日しか営業してません。

Here's Ching Leung Nunnery and a veg. restaurant is inside (ONLY in service during holidays and Sundays).
What a pity is that, the tea house we wanted to visit was CLOSED and disappeared.... :(
The signboard is very old already, you can still see the phone number was beginning with "zero"!! (Luckily NOT beginning with "12"!!)

(Earlier than 1970s, the phone numbers in HK were with 6 digits only, for differentiating different districts,
we had to dial "5" first for phone nos. in HK island, to dial "3" for Kowloon Peninsula and dialed "12" for those in the New Territories.
But later changed to "zero" in stead of "12" for the NT area.
But as the population in HK kept on growing and the combination of 7 digits [from 1990, with the area code concated to the original 6-digit phone no.] was already
NOT enough for use, we had to add "2" to the 7-digit phone numbers, to make them as an 8-digit combination,
this policy started from 1995)

清涼法苑內的佛殿很清幽, 而今天不是假日之故, 齋堂內空無一人.

お寺は静かできれいです。ベジタリアンレストランは祝日と日曜日しか営業してないから、今日　誰もいなかった。

A little Buddhist house inside Ching Leung Nunnery, but nobody inside the veg. restaurant as it's not a holiday today.

離開清涼法苑, 返回屯安里(疊茵庭旁), 花老B 要去那兒? 沿屯安里上行, 有極樂寺!!

あと、屯安里（パークランドビラスのそばに）に戻って、上に向こう！！どこに行くか？極楽寺だ！

We left Ching Leung Nunnery and then ahead for Tuen On Lane (near Parkland Villas), where was Tachibana san going?
Oh, there's a Tibetan Monastery, Kek Lok Monastery @ the end of Tuen On Lane, we must go to have a look.

非常宏偉的極樂寺!! 極樂寺是藏傳佛教的寺院, 這裡充滿西藏風味, 令我差點以為自己身處西藏!

極楽寺はとても立派だ！ここはチベットのお寺ですから、どこでもチベット風です。

What a big Monastery here (Kek Lok Monastery)!! It's a Tibetan Monastery, and Tibetan style everywhere here!!
I just thought that I was in Tibet!!