| Abstract | Whalen Lai, Professor of Religious Studies, The University of California, Davis, recalls in the article a legend about Hong Kong that touches upon the East and the West. He argues Pei-tu, a foreign Buddhist monk, retired to the Shao-lin temple or to a cave on Mount Sung near Loyang - it has usually been assumed that if he came by sea, he would have passed through Canton. Because Hong Kong is at the mouth of the Pearl River downstream from Canton, there is this apocrypha of Bodhidharma also landing around Hong Kong. He also points out that the local lore in Hong Kong is part of that larger mythopeic condensation of the basic teaching of the Buddha. |
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