The efforts to build the actual Monastery were spearheaded by the Venerable Yuet Kai, a Buddhist layman, but apparently rich merchant, enabling him to in 1949 commence the works, which ended in 1957. Not sure how this is possible, but apparently it was just him and his disciples that hauled the building materials up the hill to build the monastery. Quite the impressive feat when you climb up the hill and see just how steep it is!

While technically not a Monastery because there are no resident monks and is managed by laypersons, The ‘Monastery‘, which occupies over 8 hectares, is made up of two groups of architectural structures at lower and higher levels respectively. There is a pagoda, a hall, two pavilions and a tower in the architectural structure at the lower level. There are four halls in another structure at the higher level. The five halls in the monastery are used to house the statues of Buddhas.*

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