The Kwun Yum banner inside the Palace of Lotus Flower.
Kwun Yum is known for centuries as a deity of sympathy, compassion and mercy, hearing the pleas of those who are suffering. Kwun Yum in the eariler times was a male divnity, but evolved to be a female deity in Tang Dynasty.
Among from a saying that Kwun Yum studied Taoist teachings on lotus blossoms and that the temple's name came from.