1966年，光明山普觉禅寺举办首界新加坡本地的三坛大戒、水陆法会以及祈祷世界和平大会 – 三类殊胜法会和佛事先后举行；这些法会也是为了纪念光明山普觉禅寺开山住持转道长老建寺45周年（1921-1966）。
宏船长老祖籍福建，在闽南出家圆具，因此中国福建省佛教界与宏船长老有特殊的渊源。法会之际，福建省诸多佛寺集资并制作了这块方丈牌，敬赠宏船长老和普觉寺，以致庆贺和纪念这一系列空前的殊胜法会。
联署赠送的中国福建省佛寺有：
• 厦门南普陀寺
• 漳州南山寺
• 厦门虎溪岩
• 泉州大开元寺
• 泉州崇福寺
• 厦门万石岩
• 泉州承天寺
• 福州雪峯寺
• 泉州庆莲寺
这块巨大的金色底面牌匾曾经挂在旧方丈楼里面。现如今，虽然旧方丈楼虽然已拆除，但新建宏船长老纪念堂所珍藏的这块牌匾，更可以让人们回想从前旧方丈楼的面貌，这一牌匾也见证者普觉寺的流年往事。
In 1966, Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery organised the inaugural ‘Grand Prayer that Blesses and Benefits all Sentient Beings’ in Singapore. At that time there were three pujas held at once – Triple Platform Ordination Ceremony, The Grand Prayer that Blesses and Benefits all Sentient Beings and Grand Prayer for World Peace. The pujas were held in remembrance of the 45th anniversary of the founding abbot Venerable Sik Zhuan Dao’s establishment of the monastery.
During that period, Venerable Seck Hong Choon had close ties with the Buddhist temples in the Fujian Province of China. To congratulate and commemorate this unprecedented puja event, the provincial temples got together to present this abbot plaque to Venerable Hong Choon and Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery.
The list of Chinese temples were:
• Nanpu Tuo Temple, Xiamen
• Nanshan Temple, Zhangzhou
• Tiger Creek Temple, Xiamen
• Kaiyuan Temple, Quanzhou
• Chongfu Temple, Quanzhou
• Wan Shi Yan Temple, Xiamen
• Chengtian Temple, Quanzhou
• Xuefeng Chan Temple, Fuzhou
• Qinglian Temple, Quanzhou
This huge gold-faced plaque used to hang inside the old Abbot Hall. Though the old Abbot Hall had been demolished to make way for the new Venerable Hong Choon Memorial Hall, this plaque allows one to reminiscent the memories of the once Abbot Hall.
