Chin Swee Caves Temple, with all these added facilities and attractions will be a place of interest to all
and is expected to become one of the leading Chinese temples in South East Asia. Besides being a place to pay homage
to the Reverend Chin Swee for all his good deeds, it will also be a place for understanding the richness of ancient
Chinese traditions enabling all to understand some of the teachings of past Chinese teachers and sages that have become
the basis of traditional Chinese culture.
The Temple will be a place of great cultural heritage for everyone to learn
and benefit from. The temple will also be a venue for group activities, meditation, yoga, tai chi and the
like, regardless of race and religion.
The rock gives the necessary support to the statue while the stream provides clear cool mineral water throughout the year.
This water has been named 慏ragon Mineral Water? At the temple in Penglai Village the water was said to have healed
the sick.
This statue is very famous and visited by tens and thousands of people yearly.
People made offerings of candles and incense and asked Chin Swee for blessings. It is said that the bigger the statue,
the better the blessings as it stabilizes the area and brings calmness.
Plaques outside each hell to describe the causes to take rebirth of each hell. Judging the afterlives
provided what we did for the past.
The 18 Arhats according to Chinese Buddhism outside at the Chin Swee temple.
An Arhat (or Lohan, in China) is a Buddhist who has reached the highest state of peace and enlightenment.
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