Jao Tsung-I’s calligraphy divides the Chinese Heart Sutra across upright wooden steles. Inspired by Buddhist stone carvings at Mount Taishan in Shandong, the scholar gave Hong Kong a monument that sets sacred writing within the hills. The Chinese text and its landscape setting offer a different scale of attention after the Big Buddha.
What to look for
Timber steles form a figure of eight, a symbol of infinity.
The uninscribed stele represents emptiness within the Heart Sutra.
Useful to know
Combine the Wisdom Path with the Big Buddha at Ngong Ping; it lies a short walk away.
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