(From second left) Lau Wong-fat, Chairman of Heung Yee Kuk; Sik Chi Wai, Supervisor of Po Lin Monastery; Michael Suen Ming-yeung, Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands, and other monks and top officials pose for a group picture after a meeting about t

(From second left) Lau Wong-fat, Chairman of Heung Yee Kuk; Sik Chi Wai, Supervisor of Po Lin Monastery; Michael Suen Ming-yeung, Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands, and other monks and top officials pose for a group picture after a meeting about the Big Buddha standoff issue. The Monastery planned of a week-long closure to protest against the tourism plans for Lantau Island. 24 October 2002 (Photo by Edward Wong/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)