Several Buddhist nuns and local residents are pleading with the Changhua County government to destroy the structure
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/02
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(Image from Wei Ming-jen’s Facebook page)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – On April 1, a Changhua County councilor and several Buddhist nuns in Changhua made a plea to the local government to demolish a Buddhist temple that has been converted into a shrine for the Chinese Communist Party.
The former Biyun Chan Temple (碧雲禪寺) located in Changhua’s Ershui (二水) Township, was recently acquired by a retired military officer and businessman, Wei Ming-jen (魏明仁), who converted the structure into a “Communist and Socialist Base” in Taiwan, replete with Chinese flags and CCP paraphernalia.
On Saturday, March 31 Wei pledged that he would build a large statue of Mao Zedong on the premise, and claimed that the day it is completed will be the day that China takes over Taiwan.
The Buddhists nuns, who are in the midst of a lawsuit with Wei over the structure, said that Wei’s defacement of the temple is an insult to the dignity of Buddhist religious traditions and that of the Taiwanese people. [FULL STORY]
