I Heart Travels

Wisdom Path Ngong Ping Village After wandering around Ngong Ping Village, we followed a clear signage that leads to "The Wisdom Path which is on the right side of Tian Tan Buddha. A scenic 15-20 minutes’ walk pass a tea house, Po Lin Monastery and Tea plantation brought us into the trail revealing the Wisdom Path at the foot of Lantau Mountain. Wisdom Path traces a series of 38 wooden steles (upright monuments) containing verses from the centuries-old Heart Sutra; one of the world’s best-known prayers revered by Confucians, Buddhists and Taoists alike.  These stales display the Chinese version of the prayer, based on the calligraphy of famous contemporary scholar Professor Jao Tsung-I, and are arranged in a pattern, which represents infinity. I may not understand the Chinese words or the Heart Sutra but I really enjoyed walking the trail because it is an amazing place where the tranquility of the natural environment matches the calligraphy inscribed on the thirty-...