Taiwan 台灣

Táiwān 台灣 Other names include: Bǎodǎo 寶島; Kūndǎo 鯤島; Fúěrmóshā (Formosa) 福爾摩沙

Nearby Locations: Fújiàn 福建 province

Southeast China Region

Geography Portal

Táiwān 台灣 is an island province in the southeast of China. Separated administratively from Fújiàn 福建 province in 1885, from 1895 to 1945 it was ruled as part of the Japanese Empire. In 1949 the Nationalist government moved to the island.

Important Buddhist Sites

• Shàndǎo Temple 善導寺 and several Buddhist periodicals were based in Táiběi 台北

Other Notes

• Miàoshàn 妙善 (1901-????) was born in Xīnzhú County 新竹縣 in 1901
• A Chinese Buddhist Association 中國佛教會 was reformed here in 1949
• Qū Yìngguāng 屈映光 died here in 1973
• Cíháng 慈航 (1895-1954) died in Xìzhǐ 汐止 in 1954

References and Resources

• Taiwan Maps, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin