Nanyang Sites GIS Data

Our Datasets:

• Buddhist Temples in Taiwan active in 2010
  

  This project, funded by the Haoran Foundation 浩然基金會, was conducted at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts 法鼓文理學院 2008-2010. The project is hosted at: https://buddhistinformatics.dila.edu.tw/taiwanbudgis/. The csv and yaml of this Nanyang-temples data layer includes only the 5059 Buddhist temples that were active in 2010. There are another ca. 500 historical temples that were discontinued or moved. The full data with additional text and descriptions is in the XML, which is the original distributable of the project.

• Survey of religious sites in Jinshan 金山 and Shimen 石門 districts, northeast Taiwan.
  

  This layer is the result of a FROGBEAR workshop titled "Space and Cyberspace - Using GIS in the Study of East Asian Religion", that took place June 2017 at Dharma Drum. The images taken during the survey are archived at the Frogbear Database of Religious Sites in East Asia. The csv and yaml of this Nanyang-temples data layer include 147 religious sites in the districts of Jinshan 金山 and Shimen 石門 districts in northeast Taiwan. All sites were visited and documented by one of three teams:

  • Team 1: Anderl, Christoph; Shen, Lien Fan; Burdorf, Suzanne; Yan, Weiguang 闫伟光
  • Team 2: Lin, Peiying 林佩瑩; Buckelew, Kevin; Seymour, Kelsey; Wu, Jinhui
  • Team 3: Chang, Pi-chun 張碧君; Travis, Travis N.; Chong, Eng Keat William; Li, Xinlu 李昕璐

  The workshop was taught and organized by Simon Wiles, Oliver Streiter, Jenjou Hung 洪振洲, and Marcus Bingenheimer.

• Survey of Chinese Temples in Bangkok (2022-2023)
  

  Starting out as a follow-up study of W. Franke's documentation of Chinese Epigraphy in Bangkok, this survey maps more than 170 Chinese temple sites. It does not include small roadside shrines. The vast majority of the temples are freestanding buildings with doors and opening hours. The survey builds on previous lists. However, none of these were geo-referenced nor did they (with the exception of Duan 1996) include Chinese characters. The survey was done 2022-2023.

• Past and Present Chinese Associations in Singapore (2016)
  

  The dataset contains 358 locations of c. 170 institutions. Chinese associations or Huiguan 會館 were important institutions for overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. The survey contains past as well as present locations until 2016.