Fung Ying Seen Koon

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Fung Ying Seen Koon was founded in 1929 on a hillside at Fanling, in Hong Kong's New Territories, by the Daoist priests He Jinyu and Chen Sikai, together with the senior priest Mai Xingjie, abbot of the Sanyuan (Triple Origin) Temple of Guangzhou. Mai travelled from Guangzhou, and the group, together with fellow Daoists who pooled resources to purchase the land, sought a holy place for secluded cultivation within the Quanzhen Longmen lineage of Taoism.

For its first two decades the temple operated without a formal administrative structure. That changed in 1950, when a Board of Directors and Advisors was established to administer Daoist practice, a step that put the temple's growing religious and charitable work under an organized governing body rather than leaving it to its founders alone.

Nearly a century after Mai Xingjie and his fellow priests purchased the Fanling hillside, Fung Ying Seen Koon continues to operate as an officially registered, non-profit charitable and religious body, still governed by the Board structure set in 1950 and still rooted in the Quanzhen Longmen lineage its founders brought from Guangzhou.

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Fung Ying Seen Koon functions as more than a place of worship. Alongside its religious affairs, the temple operates a free Chinese and Western medicine clinic, kindergartens and self-study rooms for young people, and service centres for senior citizens, describing itself as a Daoist culture centre as well as a temple.

That welfare work extends beyond its own congregation. Hong Kong's Correctional Services Department confirms that Fung Ying Seen Koon established the Fung Ying Seen Koon Education Fund with a donation totalling HK$400,000, split as HK$200,000 in 2025 and HK$200,000 in 2026, to help people in custody with education and vocational training course fees, public examination fees and similar expenses, a form of giving that reaches people the temple's own congregation would not otherwise touch.

Nearly a century after its 1929 founding, Fung Ying Seen Koon continues to combine the two roles side by side: a functioning Daoist temple in Fanling, and a charity whose clinic, schools and elder-care services, and now a fund reaching into Hong Kong's correctional system, describe a welfare footprint considerably larger than its role as a place of worship alone would suggest.