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Sau Mau Ping Temple provides the setting for the Monkey God Festival, one of Hong Kong's most fascinating, and strange, celebrations. The Monkey God, like all monkeys, is mischievous. This arrogant and troublesome deity first appeared in Pilgrims to the West, a Chinese novel written during the Ming Dynasty (AD 1368-1644). An outcast from Taoist heaven, the Monkey God redeemed himself and gained Buddhist immortality by escorting Tang Gan Zang on his pilgrimage to India to obtain the teachings of The Lord Buddha. At a shanty town temple in Kowloon's Sau Mau Ping area, a possessed medium recreates the ordeals by fire and stabbing which the Monkey God suffered during the unsuccessful attempts of the other gods to execute him. The medium, who remains unharmed, runs barefoot over blazing charcoal and climbs a ladder of knives.
Hong-Kong-stub reli-struct-stub category:Sau Mau Ping category:Places of worship in Hong Kong This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Sau Mau Ping Temple".
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