The Wufeng Lin Family underwent rises and falls. They rose in Taiwan when they migrated to Wufeng, Taichung after Lin Shuangwen Incident. They used to be big landlords graduating to governmental officials with military glory. In the later Qing Dynasty, the fame earned in the imperial examination system was what transformed the family into a family of scholars. By involving in national movements and new cultural movement during the Japanese rule period, Wufeng Lin Family had become one of the most influential clans in Taiwan. Facing the family growth and decline over the past centuries and political changes in succession, some of the family members grew more religious than ever. Even though as a provincial graduate and the heir of Lin’s Upper Mansion, Wenqin Lin remained perplexed about his future. His anxiety urged him to ask the gods for an oracle. Realizing that life was changeable and fate unknown, the male leaders of Lin Family have had an affinity with religion, and set up a home temple－a guanyin temple (a temple of avalokitesvara), named Lingshan Temple. The temple was later left subject to Hsien-Tang Lin, the son of Wenquin Lin, followed by the wives of the family, including Bo-Yan Chen (Desen Upasika ) and Yue Hsu (Master Densten), and Tie Wu Lin, etc. As a result, it has now turned into a major women bodhimanda for pure karma and study in Taichung Area. Apart from politics, economic affairs and cultural business, the Lin Family has played a significant role in yet another distinctive enterprise— religion.
