Wa Sau Toi

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Wa Sau Toi (Chinese: 華首台; pinyin: huāshǒutái; Yale Cantonese: wa4 sau2 toi4) was a monastery on the sacred mountain Luofushan. It was destroyed in 1949.

The Chan (Zen) teacher and Dragon Kung Fu master Tai Yuk was a monk at Wa Sau Toi.

Lai Chi, the founder of the Wu Jo An nunnery in Guangzhou, was 35th generation in the Caodong (Japanese: Soto) school of Chan Buddhism from Wa Sau Toi.