日本殖民時期龍山寺管理型態與日僧的活動（1895-1901）=The Management Type of the Longshan Temple and Activities by Japanese Monks During the Japanese Colonial Period (1895-1901)
The famous Longshan Temple in Bangka, Taipei, was built in the third year of Qianlong (AD. 1738) and had been served as an important religious venue for two folk beliefs: Buddhism and Taoism. However, only a limited number of documents regarding the temple were preserved from the Qing Dynasty, obscuring the integrity of its history. After Taiwan entered the Japanese Colonial Period, temples across the islands were allied by the different schools of Japanese Buddhism, and the names of these temples, including the Longshan Temple, could be frequently seen in various investigation records and documents. The management type of temples starting from the late Qing Dynasty was actually quite remarkable. This, plus with the establishment of provisional mission stations by the Sōtō School along with other schools in the Longshan Temple, had soon made the temple as “a hotly contested spot for monks.” These monks not only carried out their school affairs in the Greater Taipei area but also convened activities in the Longshan Temple, gradually making the history of this period clear. Sasaki Sinryo (AD. 1865-1934), a missionary of the Sōtō School, was the first monk to sign an official contract with the Longshan Temple on March 1896 to recognize it as a branch temple. With the Longshan Temple as their stronghold, the Sōtō School and Sasaki Sinryo were able to go into 64 more branch-temples contracts in the Greater Taipei area. The Sōtō School had a combined number of devotees of several tens thousands when Sasaki Sinryo served as a missionary in Taiwan. The study probes into the management type of the Longshan Temple during the Japanese Colonial Period as well as the Sōtō School’s, Sasaki Sinryo’s, and other schools’ religious propagation activities in Longshan Temple to understand how they worked.
