Nanyang Sites GIS Data

This site is based on the Github organization nanyang-temples. It provides data on Chinese religious sites from across Southeast Asia.

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 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.