Guan Yin Temple aka 观音宫

29/01/2025

新年快乐！ 大年初一大家忙着去拜年可都没忘了到观音宫拜年。 祝大家蛇年大吉、身体健康、事事顺心。

15/05/2022

Happy Vesak Day!
你浴佛了吗？ 🙏🏻

01/02/2022

Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year! 大吉大利、 身体健康、生龙活虎！🐯🧧

31/01/2022

We hope everyone had a great year of ox 🐂! Counting down last few hours as we usher into year of tiger 🐯.

25/05/2021

All ready for Vesak Day. See you guys tomorrow!

12/02/2021

Wishing everyone an OXpicious new year! 新年快乐、万事如意！🐮🧧

20/01/2021

Very honoured to be featured on ‘Neighbourhood fixer’ in the Jalan Besar/ Little India episode!

Watch to understand the rich temple culture and how much Pornsak loves 风珠姑‘s specialty dish between 12:10-18:46.

Darren tours Chinatown with illustrator Francis. A group of volunteers who set up gourmet website to help mothers from low-income families to earn extra income & set up reading plans for kids. Visit two young hawkers who provide free meals for the elderly as well as a shoemaker and a scissors maker....

07/05/2020

Wishing everyone a Happy Wesak Day! Let us celebrate and always inspired by the teachings from our Buddha especially during the difficult times.

19/10/2019

Happy 98th Birthday to Fu Shou Tong Temple’s ah Gu! We are so honored to be invited to this joyous celebration 🥳.

Cheers to the everlasting friendship! I

03/09/2019

It’s that mooncakes and lanterns time of the year again! 🥮 🎏 Our friends from 云山宫 of Kulai specially delivered this box of awesomeness to us this morning. 😋😋
Don’t we all love mid-autumn festival (中秋节)?

29/08/2019

Today is the sacred birthday of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (Earth Store Bodhisattva)
地藏王菩萨圣诞日 (29th day of the 7th Lunar month)

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (地藏菩萨 Dizang Pusa) is the only Bodhisattva dressed in a monk’s robe and either bald or wearing a monk’s cap with the Five Dhyani Buddhas. He holds a pilgrim’s staff in his right hand and a pearl or ritual object in his other hand. He is one of the Four Great Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism. His place of abode is in Jiu Hua Shan (九华山) one of the Four Sacred Mountains of China.

The Bodhisattva is known for his great vow to help sentient beings to gain enlightenment before he would become a Buddha. His famous Great Vow is “If the Hell is not empty, I shall not attain Buddhahood” (地獄不空，誓不成佛). In a Chinese Monastery, we can see the sculpture or image of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the ancestral hall where tablets or urns are placed. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is commonly mistaken by many to be Maudgalyayana (目連) of the Ullambana Festival or Xuanzang (玄奘) of Journey to the West.

In an earlier life, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva made the vow when he was a pious daughter of a Brahman. She made offerings and dedicated the merits to her deceased mother who ascended to higher realms because of her merit. Although relieved, she could not bear to let sentient beings in hells suffer and vowed to help them.

Buddhism teaches us to pay filial piety to our parents in present life, but it is also worthy to extend our filial obedience to our parents in their past lives and to all the sentient beings. During the 7th lunar month, Buddhists recite the “Sutra of the original vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva” (地藏菩萨本愿经) and dedicate the merits to ancestors. This month is also known as the “Month of Filial Piety” whilst the Sutra is also known as the canon of filial piety in Buddhism. By relying on the merits from the great vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, it is our hope that our parents in the past lives could be liberated so that all of us could be relieved from sufferings, hence achieving Buddhahood together.

We should make every effort to follow the Bodhisattva’s compassionate aspirations to reach out to sentient beings in places of unhappiness and help them overcome suffering. It gives us an inspiration to care for all beings, with loving kindness to make our world a better place to live in.

29/08/2019

It’s the birthday of Dizang Bodhisattva (地藏王菩萨)today! 29th July in Lunar Calendar.
It’s our chance to worship and show our appreciation!
Thank you Hui for sponsoring the food for our worship.