Lam Yiu Gwai

Background

A Hakka, Lam was born in 1877 in Huìyáng (惠陽) County in the prefecture of Huizhou in Guangdong Province, China.

Career

Lam Yiu Gwai married and had several children. Lin Yin-Tang was from the prefecture of Dongguan, which bordered both Huìyáng and Bóluó counties. Like Yiu Gwai, Yin-Tang studied at a temple on Loh Fu Mountain.

In Yin-Tang"s case, the Temple of Emptiness (沖虛觀), where he studied meditation and traditional Chinese medicine.

After a stroke in the early 1950s, Lam Yiu Gwai moved to Hong Kong for medical treatment where, after another stroke in 1965, he died in 1966.

Connections

Friend:

Lin Yin-Tang