A Buddhist temple in Beitou with a distinctive Thai and Indian-influenced design, formerly known as the Lover’s Temple (情人廟) for its wax figures depicting famous Chinese love stories. Founded in 1973 as a mixed Buddhist-Taoist temple, it was converted into a purely Buddhist temple in 1987 and now houses a Thousand-Armed Guanyin and 500 Arhat statues modeled after those at Jingci Temple in Hangzhou.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Unusual Architecture in Taiwan (台灣奇特建築)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.