多元的傳承：馬來西亞佛教的實踐：第二屆馬來西亞佛教國際研討會論文集=Multi Tradition: The Practice of Malaysian Buddhism: Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Malaysian Buddhism
This paper aims to study the Guan Yin temples and the Guan Yin belief in Kinta, Perak through inspecting historical materials. The early groups of Chinese fortune seekers arrived at Malaya brought along their belief and worship systems from respective home regions: the Hakkas founded San Shan Guo Wang, Tan Gong and He Xian Gu temples. The Guan Yin temples in Kinta are commonly “non-clan” based temples. This worship phenomenon is believed to transcend the clan and region, agglomerate the diverse Chinese societies in Malaya. The Guan Yin temples founded in late 19th century have the elements of Buddhism, Taoism and Chinese folk religion, although they were usually deemed as fountain of Chinese Buddhism.Besides combining findings from archival material and field research to discuss the Guan Yin temple in Kinta, this paper also illustrate the worship of Guan Yin in Chinese household today by using Kuala Kuang as case study.
