Sik Kok Kwong GBS

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 (釋覺光; pinyin: Shì Juéguāng; Cantonese Yale romanisation: Sīk Gók Gwōng; born May 16, 1919) is a Buddhist monk from Hong Kong and the current president of the Hong Kong Buddhist Association

Hong Kong Buddhist Association

Hong Kong Buddhist Association is a Buddhist organisation in Hong Kong founded in 1945. It promotes Buddhism in Hong Kong and provides a series of charity services in Hong Kong, including education, medical, child care, youth activities, elderly care and burial....

. He is also the Honorary Vice-President of the World Buddhist Sangha Council

World Buddhist Sangha Council

The World Buddhist Sangha Council is an international non-government organisation whose objectives are to develop the exchanges of the Buddhist religious and monastic communities of the different traditions worldwide, and help to carry out activities for the transmission of Buddhism. It was...

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In a 2004 interview with the South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post , together with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is an English-language Hong Kong newspaper, published by the SCMP Group with a circulation of 104,000....

, Kok Kwong urged Hong Kong's Buddhists to be content with the government and not to attend protests.

Kok Kwong was one of eight venerables who proposed the World Buddhist Forum

First World Buddhist Forum, 2006

The World Buddhist Forum was held in Hangzhou City and Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, China, from April 13 to April 16, 2006. It was the first major international religious conference in China since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949....

in China in 2004, a suggestion that won support from Buddhist circles in countries like Japan and the Republic of Korea.