Taipei's annual Qingshan King Festival breathes new life into one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. By traveling temple to temple through the shopping streets and red light district, worshipers ...
A young man sporting a rainbow pendant stands before the altar of the Wei-ming temple on the outskirts of Taipei, holding aloft a box full of prayers written on pieces of paper.
One of the first public controversies happenedin 1987, when it emerged that a prominent Taiwanese Mazu temple group had quietly travelled to Meizhou while Taipei and Beijing had no formal contact.
For example, long lines are normal at Xingtian Temple, located near the heart of Taipei. On one visit four years ago, I saw 50 to 100 people lining up to receive healing, a blessing, or some other ...
People take photographs of Chinese Olympic table tennis champion Ma Long, center, as he and a delegation of students and young people from China visit the Taipei Confucius Temple yesterday.