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Buddhism sacred sites in Taiwan
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Bangka Longshan Temple
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Founded in 1738 by Fujian settlers in Taipei's oldest quarter, Longshan Temple holds more than a hundred deities beneath one roof....
Biyun Temple, Baihe
Baihe, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
Halfway up Pillow Mountain in the volcanic Guanziling hills, Biyun Temple has sheltered a Guanyin statue carried from Fujian since the turn of the eighteenth century....
Daxian Temple, Baihe
Baihe, Tainan City, Tainan, Taiwan
Daxian Temple traces its founding to a Guanyin statue the monk Canche could not lift once he set it down at the foot of Pillow Mountain in 1701 — a monastery that has...
Haiyin Temple, Kinmen
Jinhu, Kinmen County, Kinmen County, Taiwan
Haiyin Temple sits near the summit of Mount Taiwu, Kinmen's highest point, where a Song-dynasty folk shrine gradually became one of the island's most significant Buddhist...
Hsinchu Zhulian Temple
Hsinchu City, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
In Hsinchu's oldest Buddhist-affiliated temple, three Guanyin statues with three separate histories share one altar....
Lianzuo Mountain Guanyin Temple
Daxi, Taoyuan City, Taoyuan, Taiwan
On a small hill above the Daxi valley, its shape said to resemble the lotus seat that supports a buddha, this temple has drawn Hakka pilgrims since 1797....
Ling Jiou Mountain Monastery
Fulong, New Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taiwan
On a coastal mountain in northeastern Taiwan, this monastery was founded in 1984 by the monk Hsin Tao as a place to renew Buddhist practice for a modern world....
Linji Huguo Temple
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
In the heart of Taipei stands a rare survivor: a Rinzai Zen temple built in Edo-period Japanese style during the colonial era, its main hall constructed of timber....
Lukang Longshan Temple
Lukang, Changhua County, Changhua County, Taiwan
Lukang Longshan Temple holds Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion, in a Qing-era complex so architecturally intact that Taiwan's tourism authority calls it the country's...
Penghu Guanyin Temple
Magong, Penghu County, Penghu County, Taiwan
Penghu Guanyin Temple has watched over Magong Harbor since 1696, when a Qing naval officer expanded a small waterside pavilion into the archipelago's first Buddhist temple....
Shoushanyan Guanyin Temple
Guishan, Taoyuan City, Taoyuan, Taiwan
On Longevity Mountain in Taoyuan stands a Guanyin temple with an unusual image: the bodhisattva of compassion depicted in masculine form, crowned like an emperor....
Zhaiming Monastery
Daxi, Taoyuan City, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Founded in 1873 by devotees of the Longhua sect, one of China's fasting religions, Zhaiming Monastery has since been absorbed into mainstream Taiwanese Buddhism under the...
Zhulinshan Guanyin Temple
Linkou, New Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Enshrining an Eighteen-Armed Guanyin whose divine presence was carried from Fujian's Jinjiang Longshan Temple in 1801, Zhulinshan Guanyin Temple has grown into the...
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