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10 Thousand Buddha Monastery

One of the oldest tourist attractions the Ten Thousand Buddha Monastery in Sha Tin is an amazing place to visit and take a picture.  Being in Sha Tin though it is quite a long way out and probably not worth visit on its own unless you have an interest in one of the nearby attractions such as the race course.

Despite the official name it isn't a monastery as such, there are no monks living there unlike the Po Lin monastery beside the Big Buddha on Lantau.  Rather it is a shrine built by a local businessman who was a devout Buddhist. 

Most people visit to see the huge walls inside covered in small statues of the Buddha, but that isn't all.  Outside on the patios there are also many free standing statues.  If you were to count them all up they say it is more like twelve thousand than 10 thousand!

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