Ci Hang Temple
There is a senior colleague called Mr Lin, who is a follower of I Kuan Tao : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Kuan_Tao I Kuan Tao is very popular in TW, has many followers, such as Clara's father, one of my Economics professors in the uni, etc.
Mr Lin is a very good guy, he doesn't preach his religion whenever he sees chance, yet he is pious. As I Kuan Tao's followers need to be a vegetarian, so is he. He doesn't drink, which is very hard to do here on Mazu.
Last month he told me, there is a Guan Yin Temple called Ci Hang Temple in ZhangHua County (near Taichung) , the wooden Guan Yin statue is huge, made of a big chunk of wood. It's 'history' is quite interesting. The Guan Yin statue was created in south Taiwan, yet while on the way to the northern temple where she had been supposed to stay in, the truck had an accident and couldn't move any further. People said, herself chose the place where she wanted to stay, instead of going to the temple where her followers decided.
Here are some pics on the news coverage when the mysterious event happened in 1981: http://chuta-chg.myweb.hinet.net/data.htm
It says that 1) The driver hadn't been supposed to drive on that road, he claimed that he was in a 'dizzy' state. 2) the Guan Yin statue was 'threw' out of the truck some feets away while the truck was tumbled over and belly-up. Guan Yin landed on the ground safe and sound, facing east. The six people in the truck crawled out of the car without any injury. 3) Days later, the truck was fixed, they wanted to send Guan Yin back to it's original destination - a temple in BanQiao(north Taiwan). Guan Yin refused as they couldn't manage to lift it up @@ They thought Guan Yin wanted to stay there, so gradually, over years, the local people donated the place to build Ci Hang Temple. Very grand now : http://chuta-chg.myweb.hinet.net/welcome.htm Three storeys, and has many dieties inside, including Jade Emperor, Hua Tuo, Guan Yu etc. Website here : http://chuta-chg.myweb.hinet.net/
Some things are just miraculous!
Mr Lin is a very good guy, he doesn't preach his religion whenever he sees chance, yet he is pious. As I Kuan Tao's followers need to be a vegetarian, so is he. He doesn't drink, which is very hard to do here on Mazu.
Last month he told me, there is a Guan Yin Temple called Ci Hang Temple in ZhangHua County (near Taichung) , the wooden Guan Yin statue is huge, made of a big chunk of wood. It's 'history' is quite interesting. The Guan Yin statue was created in south Taiwan, yet while on the way to the northern temple where she had been supposed to stay in, the truck had an accident and couldn't move any further. People said, herself chose the place where she wanted to stay, instead of going to the temple where her followers decided.
Here are some pics on the news coverage when the mysterious event happened in 1981: http://chuta-chg.myweb.hinet.net/data.htm
It says that 1) The driver hadn't been supposed to drive on that road, he claimed that he was in a 'dizzy' state. 2) the Guan Yin statue was 'threw' out of the truck some feets away while the truck was tumbled over and belly-up. Guan Yin landed on the ground safe and sound, facing east. The six people in the truck crawled out of the car without any injury. 3) Days later, the truck was fixed, they wanted to send Guan Yin back to it's original destination - a temple in BanQiao(north Taiwan). Guan Yin refused as they couldn't manage to lift it up @@ They thought Guan Yin wanted to stay there, so gradually, over years, the local people donated the place to build Ci Hang Temple. Very grand now : http://chuta-chg.myweb.hinet.net/welcome.htm Three storeys, and has many dieties inside, including Jade Emperor, Hua Tuo, Guan Yu etc. Website here : http://chuta-chg.myweb.hinet.net/
Some things are just miraculous!