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Ling Xian Yan, Ipoh is just conveniently located at the Gurung Rapat area and it is just beside to the main road (Jalan Gopeng). The strategic location as the first among the three Cave temple and colorful traditional Chinese temple design makes it having the most crowd. Unlike the San Bao Dong Buddhist and Nan Tian Dong Taoist cave Temples which each has their own long history; in comparison, creation of this temple was rather "new" and more importantly, it was an individual effort. According to an introductory marble stone which illustrated its history; the project was started by an immigrant from Guangdong Province, China named Loh Chee Meng 1913~1995. A more remarkable fact is, he only began construction (inspired by a dream) when he was 57 years old which means officially, it was built in 1967. Originally, the cave has only a Chinese folk religion image of Tua Pek Gong (Tai Pak Gong in Cantonese) statue where its history cannot be traced. As a retiree specialized in Chinese construction and design, it still took Mr. Loh entire life of his retirement of 28 years to build this temple in phases.

More information at :
http://www.mir.com.my/leofoo/Thai-amulets/Ipoh/Lingxianyan/index.htm