DATO SRI PROFESSOR DR MAJOR EDMUND GOH AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE VISITED THE NEWLY BUILT, NOT EVEN OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED OPENED SAN CHING DAOIST TEMPLE OUTSIDE KOTA KINABALU, SABAH TO PRAY TO THE 3 STAR GODS AND PAY RESPECTS TO ALL THE GODS AND GODDESSES AND DEITIES. THE 3 STAR GODS ARE AMONG THE OLDEST GODS WORSHIPPED BY THE ANCIENT CHINESE AND THIS TRIO CONTINUE TO BE WORSHIPPED TODAY. THE 3 STAR GODS ARE USUALLY KNOWN AS FU LU SHOU OR THE GODS OF PROSPERITY, STATUS AND LONGEVITY. ALMOST EVERY HOUSEHOLD DISPLAY THEM IN PROMINENT PLACES TOGETHER WITH BUDDHA AND KUANYIN. THANK YOU ALEX HII OF SAGAMAHIR WHO INTRODUCED AND DROVE US THERE FOR A PRIVATE VISIT. AS THE TEMPLE IS NOT OFFICIALLY OPENED YET, ALEX HII ARRANGED FOR A CARETAKER TO SHOW US AROUND!

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PHOTOS BY CANON

THE 3 STAR GODS ARE USUALLY PLACED IN THIS ORDER---SHOU LU FU---AS THE CHINESE READ FROM RIGHT TO LEFT SO IT READS AS 'FU LU SHOU'!

THE GOD FU IS SOMETIMES CALLED KAISHEN OR GOD OF WEALTH WHILE SHOU THE GOD OF LONGEVITY IS ALSO KNOWN AS GOD OF HEALTH. TOGETHER THEY ARE REGARDED AS 'THE 3 PURE ONES'.

 DATO SRI PROFESSOR DR MAJOR EDMUND GOH AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

PRAYERS TO 3 STAR GODS FU, LU, SHOU TO SHOWER US WITH HEALTH, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS IN 2020
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ENTRANCE TO SAN CHING DAOIST TEMPLE

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH AND HIS MOTHER DIANA BONG

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT

INSIDE THE MAIN TEMPLE OF 3 STAR GODS SHOU LU FU WHO ARE DEPICTED IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORM AS REGAL, POWERFUL AND STERN GODS AND NOT THE USUALLY 3 JOLLY, LAUGHING, BENEVOLENT AND FAT DEITIES SEEN IN CHINESE HOMES. S THIS IS THEIR TEMPLE, THEY ARE SHOWN IN THEIR ORIGINAL, DIGNIFIED AND ROYAL FORM AS ARBITERS OF MANKIND'S FATE

THE GOD OF STATUS, RANK, RESPECT, HONOUR AND AUTHORITY

STAR GOD LU

LU THE GOD OF STATUS, POWER AND MONEY

FU THE GOD OF PROSPERITY, PROPERTY AND WEALTH 

SHOU THE GOD OF LONGEVITY AND HEALTH

THE 3 STAR GODS

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH IN PRAYER

SERIOUS TAOISTS IN PRAYER SO 2020 WILL BE BLESSED, BLISSFUL, BOUNTIFUL AND BEAUTIFUL FOR DATO SRI EDMUND GOH AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

YES! PRAYERS ANSWERED AND GRANTED

PRAY TO GOD OF LONG LIFE AND HEALTH

PRAYERS TO JADE EMPEROR

XI WANGMU THE QUEEN EMPRESS MOTHER OF WESTERN HEAVEN AND JADE EMPEROR

BUDDHA FLANKED BY AVALOKITESVARA (A FORM OF KUANYIN THE GODDESS OF MERCY) AND MANSJURI (GENTLE GLORY WHOSE SWORD CUTS THROUGH THE FOG OF IGNORANCE)

BUDDHA AMITABHA

AVALOKITESVARA

MAJUSRI

SHRINE TO THE WARRIOR GOD WHO PROTECTS HEAVEN

2 OF 4 GUARDIAN KINGS 

BENEVOLENT MAITREYA THE BUDDHA OF THE FUTURE

GUARDIANS OF 4 CARDINAL POINTS

IN HONOUR OF THE MEGA-TON MARBLE VERSION IN FORBIDDEN CITY IN BEIJING WHOSE ERECTION WAS CONSIDERED A MAJOR ARCHITECTURAL FEAT IN THE 16TH CENTURY

KUAN YIN THE GODDESS OF MERCY

XI WANGMU THE QUEEN MOTHER OF WESTERN HEAVENS WHOSE ORCHARD GROWS THE PEACHES OF IMMORTALITY

NOTE THE CROWN WORN BY ANCIENT CHINESE EMPERORS

ERLANG SHEN, NEPHEW OF JADE EMPEROR

SHRINE TO LAO TZU WHICH MEANS 'OLD MASTER' OR 'OLD TEACHER' THE FOUNDER OF TAOISM AND AUTHOR OF MANY SACRED TEXTS 

AT A RIPE OLD AGE, LAO TZE DECLARED HIS TIME HAD COME AND RODE INTO THE SUNSET ATOP A BUFFALO PLAYING THE LUTE AND WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN

MANY DEVOTEES BELIEVED LAO TZU NEVER DIED PHYSICALLY AS HE DISCOVERED THE ELIXIR OF YOUTH AND DRANK IT, THUS BECOMING AN IMMORTAL

MANY BELIEVE LAO TZU STILL LIVES AND MOVES AMONG US, OBSERVING, LAMENTING AND LAUGHING AT OUT ACHIEVEMENTS AND FOOLISHNESS

THE 12 ANIMALS OF CHINESE ZODIAC

THE 8 IMMORTALS 

OH SO LONG, FAIR, FLAWLESS LEGS!

KERWEI EVEN THE SUN RAYS KALAH

OK SO DATO KEE HUA CHEE WAS A MOMENTARY SUN DEITY

PRAYERS TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM IMMINENT CATASTROPHE

FAREWELL TO SAN CHING TEMPLE OF KOTA KINABALU, SABAH

MAY THE 3 STAR GODS AND ALL GODS AND GODDESSES BLESS US AND SAVE US IN 2020!