While visiting northern Hong Kong and the Ping Yeung Mural Village I was looking for some veggie food and saw that I could find one in a nearby Taoist temple – Wun Chuen Sin Koon. Since there wasn’t much on
Tin Hau Kung, Western Monastery, Yuen Yuen Institute: Tsuen Wan temples
The Tsuen Wan area in Hong Kong has some local temples well worth visiting, all not too far away from one another. You could easily spend a day touring around, walking between temples and monasteries. In my last visit to
HK Temple Run Day : Wong Tai Sin, Chi Lin & 10000 Buddhas
I took a Chinese visitor to Hong Kong to see some of the local temple culture on a temple run day. We started at the quiet and beautiful Nan Lian gardens and Chu Lin Nunnery near Diamond Hill, continues to
White Cloud Temple : Beijing
Lots of religious worship sites around Beijing. I previously visited a Confucian temple and a large Buddhist temple next to it – Yonghegong. While Cloud Temple is a good example of a Daoist temple in Beijing. Dating back to the
Kun Iam Temple : Macau
A bit off the beaten track for the casino hungry Macau tourist and not as well known as A-Ma temple is the very old Kun Iam Temple dating back to the 17th (some say 14th) century before the Portuguese took
Yuen Yuen Institute & Western Monastery : Tseun Wan – Hong Kong
A few weeks after returning from a visitor scholar attachment to Florida State University, the professor I was working with reciprocated with a visit to Hong Kong with his daughter. Being the local, I was happy to suggest the good
City God Birthday Festival : Jinsha Shaobei – Kinmen Island
Sometimes travel is mostly about luck, and on my recent trip to Kinmen luck was definitely on my side. As I entered Kinmen via a ferry from Xiamen and sat down with the shy guy in the welcoming Tourist Information
Quanfu Temple – ZhouZhuang Watertown : Shanghai
Quite a few things to see when visiting the gorgeous watertown of Zhou Zhuang between Suzhou and Shanghai, but of all the local attractions the most impressive is perhaps the Quanfu Temple dedicated to Buddhism. It dates back to the
Treasure Hill Temple : Taipei
Next to the newly renovated Treasure Hill – a military neighborhood turned artist village – lies an old temple dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy – Guan Yin (觀音). This temple dates back almost 300 years, and is well worth
Xingtian Temple : Taipei
Knowing Taipei as well as I do it’s somewhat surprising I never got around to visit one of Taiwan’s most popular temples – Xingtian Temple. In my recent visit to Taipei I finally remedied that, and after a visit to