A Buddhist temple established in 1977 in the hills above Ziqiang Tunnel (自強隧道) in Zhongshan District, Taipei. Although primarily venerating Guanyin (觀音), the temple is more often visited for another attraction entirely. Behind the main hall are ten stone idols from the Taipei Shikoku 88 Pilgrimage (台北四國八十八所靈場), a circuit of stone buddhas established in 1923 and originally placed along roads between Shilin and Yangmingshan. These idols were relocated here in the post-war era and include numbers 19, 22, 28, 34, 36, 37, 38, plus a pair depicting Kōbō Daishi (弘法大師) and one of Mañjuśrī (文殊菩薩).
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- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
- Bernice's Random Notes (Bernice的隨手筆記)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Japanese Buddhist Pilgrimage Sites in Taiwan (臺灣佛教巡禮場所)
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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.