Taofong Shan

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Buildings of the center

Taofong shan ( Chinese  道 風 山 , Pinyin Dàofēng shān , W.-G. Taofeng shan ) is a Christian center in Hong Kong . Founded in 1930 on a hill above Sha Tin , it is the continuation of a Christian Buddhist center ( Qingfeng shan ) in Nanjing .

Karl Ludvig Reichelt (1877–1952) tried as a missionary to reach Chinese Buddhist monks in an environment in which they would feel comfortable. He was driven from the first center by the civil war and found a new place to stay in Hong Kong. Through reparation payments he had the means to acquire a hill in the New Territories . A missionary architect friend, Johannes Prip-Møller, designed the center in the style of a Zen monastery . Daoist and Buddhist monks were invited to take part in meditation and study there.

A magazine "道风" pinyin: dào fēng was distributed and promoted the "Christian brotherhood among religious East Asia" ( English Christian Brotherhood among the Religious devotees in East Asia ).

After the Second World War and Reichelt's death in 1952, the orientation of the center changed several times. Because of the isolation of China, the wandering monks stayed away. Attempts have been made to set up a similar center in Taiwan.

Refugee work, work with the elderly, work with backpackers , teaching assignments and, since 1993, above all, philosophical dialogue again characterize the center, which carries out these different tasks in three departments.

Liu Xiaofeng was a prominent exponent of the philosophical work there. Today he teaches at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou (Canton).

literature

  • Reichelt, Karl Ludvig: The Chinese Buddhism. A picture of the religious life of the East . / W. Oehler (transl.), Basel / Stuttgart 1926 [Original: Fra O possibly religious Liv. København 1922].
  • Faber, Tobias: Johannes Prip-Møller. A Danish Architect in China . Hong Kong 1994.
  • Holth, Sverre: Karl Ludvig Reichelt and Tao Fong Shan . Hong Kong 1952.
  • Sharpe, Eric J .: Karl Ludvig Reichelt: Missionary, Scholar, and Pilgrim . Hong Kong 1984.
  • Thelle, Notto R .: A Christian Monastery for Buddhist Monks 1: Karl Ludvig Reichelt's Sacred Mountains . (Coming out - Monumenta Serica )
Entrance to the "Daofeng Shan" Study Center, Hong Kong, 2000.

Web links

Commons : Taofong Shan  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Coordinates: 22 ° 23 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 114 ° 10 ′ 55.6 ″  E