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A visit to Taipei's Longshan Temple on a lucky night provides a cultural window. The faithful of several religious traditions gather to pray. The chaos of the modern city outside fades away inside ...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taipei's popular religious landmark Longshan Temple announced Friday (Feb. 27) that the use of incense will no longer be permitted at the site starting March 13. In an official ...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – On Thursday (Sept. 29), the lifeless body of a young woman, surnamed Cheng (鍾), was found inside a bathroom stall at Longshan Temple in Taipei’s Wanhua District. A cleaner ...
One of the most stunning features of Taiwan's Lukang Longshan Temple is its extravagant wood caisson ceiling. Wei-Te Wong (Flickr/Creative Commons). Asia’s Ring of Fire is famous for its ...
A woman from Hong Kong was found dead in a temple in Taiwan. The woman, a 20-year-old student surnamed Zhong, was found dead in a women’s bathroom at around 2 p.m. local time at the Longshan ...
Longshan Temple preserves its mid-19th-century style and attractive garden. Then there’s the ever-crowded, ever-noisy Lukang Mazu Temple, famous as a stop along the Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage. Away from ...
Chinese Professional Baseball League president Tsai Chi-chang, second row, seventh right, and Longshan Temple vice chairman Huang Shu-wei, second row, fifth right, pose for a photograph along with the ...
U.S. air raids killed 5,592 people and wounded almost 9,000 on Taiwan between Oct. 12, 1944, and Aug. 10, 1946, according to the Taipei Times in 2015.
A visit to Taipei's Longshan Temple on a lucky night provides a cultural window. The faithful of several religious traditions gather to pray. The chaos of the modern city outside fades away inside ...