Monday, December 14, 2015

Kaiyuan Temple 開元寺 in Tainan and Huangbo Dharma Transmission

I visited Tainan Kaiyuan Temple 開元寺 in the afternoon of Dec. 12, 2015. This used to be the villa of the Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功family in Tainan and was converted to a Buddhist monastery after the Qing government conquered Taiwan. It was a famous Chan temple in Tainan and one of its dharma transmission was derived from Huangbo Monastery 黃檗寺 in Fujian, where Master Yinyuan was abbot and later went to Japan. Several inscriptions of Linji abbots were preserved in the temple. Taiwan scholar Jiang Canteng 江燦騰 is writing a detailed history of Kaiyuan Temple. It was fortunate that I also met Mr. Zeng Guodong 曾國棟 , director of Tainan Cultural Property Association 台南市文化資產保護協會 here and asked him questions about the location of Huangbo Monastery in Tainan.







Note: The location is Kaiyuan Temple. But I don't know why Google shows it is Wei Kang Library.

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