Originally founded in 1895 by He Pulian (何普蓮) as Dehe Hall (德合堂), a Longhua (龍華) sect zhaitang (齋堂), or fasting hall, of the Zhaijiao (齋教) folk religion. It is located at the foot of Tiezhenshan (鐵砧山) in Waipu, Taichung. It was rebuilt in a Japanese style in the aftermath of the 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake by the then-hall leader Wang Pujin (王普進), similar in form to Xiangshan Yishan Hall and Gongguan Xingxiu Monastery. Mazu and other folk deities once enshrined here were removed as the institution drifted into mainstream Buddhism, and it has since been successively renamed Tiefeng Monastery (鐵峰寺) and now Cilian Monastery (慈蓮寺).
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Center For GIS, Academia Sinica (文化資源地理資訊系統)
- Rook Back (倒車)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake (新竹台中地震)
- Zhaijiao in Taiwan (台灣齋教)
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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.