Qualla: Kunci Temple https://qualla.com/kunci-temple en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/4/kunci-temple-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kunci Temple https://qualla.com/kunci-temple Kunci Temple: Introduction https://qualla.com/kunci-temple/ Photo credit Eric Deng, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1960, a young woman who had recently taken Buddhist vows arrived at a small temple in the Taitung valley and stayed for two months. She was not famous yet. She slept in the temple, held conversations about the Dharma under an old chinaberry tree in the courtyard, and then moved on. Her name was Cheng Yen, and she would go on to found Tzu Chi — today one of the largest Buddhist charitable organizations in the world. The chinaberry tree is still there, still standing outside Kunci Temple, still leafy and vast. People come to sit under it. The tree was there before she arrived, and it is here after.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/4/kunci-temple-wp/wsn4-kunci-temple-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kunci Temple: A Plain That Invited Settlement https://qualla.com/kunci-temple/ Photo credit Eric Deng, CC BY-SA 4.0. Longtian Village, where Kunci Temple stands, occupies a stretch of flat land along the Beinan River in Luye Township. At the start of Japanese colonial rule over Taiwan, the area was largely unpopulated — a riverside plain that the colonial administration identified as suitable a...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/4/kunci-temple-wp/wsn4-kunci-temple-a-plain-that-invited-settlement.mp3 0:06 2 full Kunci Temple: A Shrine That Moved, and Moved Again https://qualla.com/kunci-temple/ Photo credit Eric Deng, CC BY-SA 4.0. Inside the new Japanese settlement, a Shinto shrine was built on October 17, 1923. It was dedicated to Prince Yoshihisa and served the spiritual needs of the Japanese immigrant community through the colonial decades. On November 13, 1931, the shrine was relocated to the current g...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/4/kunci-temple-wp/wsn4-kunci-temple-a-shrine-that-moved-and-moved-again.mp3 0:06 3 full Kunci Temple: The Shrine Reconstructed https://qualla.com/kunci-temple/ Photo credit Eric Deng, CC BY-SA 4.0. Today, Kunci Temple's grounds contain something unusual: a reconstructed Shinto shrine known as Luye Shrine (鹿野神社). The original shrine structure, adapted and absorbed into the temple complex after 1945, was eventually reconstructed through a Taiwan-Japan cooperative effort compl...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/4/kunci-temple-wp/wsn4-kunci-temple-the-shrine-reconstructed.mp3 0:06 4 full Kunci Temple: The Chinaberry Tree https://qualla.com/kunci-temple/ Photo credit Eric Deng, CC BY-SA 4.0. Outside the main temple building grows an eighty-year-old chinaberry tree, roughly 20 meters tall — more than twice the expected height for its species. The tree predates many of the temple's current structures. Its size alone would make it a landmark, but it carries additional s...

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