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The Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery (also the Bright Hill Pujue Chan Monastery) (simplified Chinese: 光明山普觉禅寺; traditional Chinese: 光明山普覺禪寺; pinyin: Guāngmíng Shān Pǔjué Chán Sì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kong-bîng-san-phóo-kak-sī), is a Buddhist temple and monastery in Bishan, Singapore. [1]
Venerable Hong Choon became the abbot of Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery [4] in 1943, administering the temple and representing it at social and Buddhist functions for over four decades, propagating Buddhism in Singapore.
The temple was built in 1921 on a plot of land donated by Chinese businessman, Tay Woo Seng, and subsequently became known as the Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery, after the location "Bright Hill" that it was built on.
Kwang Sheng has served as the president of the Singapore Buddhist Federation since 2006, [4] and became the sixth abbot of Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery [5] in 2004. . He has been the chief administrator of the KMSPKS [6] since 1995 and established the Buddhist College of Singapore in 2005
Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery; Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple; Kwan Yin Chan Lin; Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery; Poh Ern Shih Temple; Singapore Buddhist Lodge;
The Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery at Bishan Buddhists generally classify themselves as either from Theravāda Tradition or Mahāyāna Tradition. As the Singaporean Buddhist population is mostly ethnic Chinese people , they adhere to Chinese Buddhism (a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism).
The Bright Hill Crematorium and Columbarium, located within Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery, [15] provides crematoria services and facilities to store ashes of the deceased. [14] The other crematorium and columbarium are located in Tse Tho Aum Temple, another Buddhist temple along Sin Ming Drive. [16]
The first pile for the temple’s extension programme was driven in by the late Most Venerable Seck Hong Choon, the Chief Abbot of Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Temple on 15th January 1987.