Philippine Taoist Temple In Cebu.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Cebu Taoist Temple (Chinese: 宿霧定光寶殿) is a Taoist temple located in Beverly Hills Subdivision of Cebu City, Philippines. The temple is built by Cebu's substantial Chinese community in 1972. With an elevation of 110 metres (360 ft) above sea level, the temple is a towering, multi-tiered, multi-hued attraction accessible by three separate winding routes.
Unlike the neighboring Phu Sian Temple, the Taoist temple is open to the worshipers and non-worshipers alike. A ritual among devotees is where one prays to the gods to grant one's wish. The ritual includes washing of hands, going inside the chapel barefoot and dropping two blocks of wood. If the blocks of wood are both face up then one could make a wish. If not then it is not yet the time for one's wish to be granted and one has to come to the temple some other time.
The temple is the center of worship for Taoism, the religion which follows the teachings of the ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao Zi. Another ritual among Taoist devotees, which is done during Wednesdays and Sundays, is the climbing of its 81 steps (representing the 81 chapters of Taoism scriptures) to light joss sticks and have their fortune read by the monks.
Some guide books and travel agencies offer trips to the temple or as a side-trip in a tour around Cebu City. But it is more popular with grade school students.
The entrance to the temple was a replica of the Great Wall of China.
The temple includes a chapel, a library, a souvenir shop and a wishing well.
The spacious balconies offer a scenic view of the downtown Cebu.
Thanks for posting this video. This temple was a highlight on my trip to Cebu several years ago.
Thanks for watching , due to current crisis thats all over the world its highly unlikely visiting the philippines will be possible.
I often used to visit The Taoist Temple on Adriadico Steet in Ermita. Although it is a much more urban setting in Manila The Taoist temple there shares a similar beauty and artistic design features. It is a sacred place and peacefuĺ which holds special significance to me
In provinces, there are also taoist temples.
@Love 3 of those taoist temples are in Cebu
I also visit this place and man as a half Chinese this place not only look like your in China but it make you look like your living on Los Angeles or Hollywood because of the amount of houses on the hills and the amount of rich Chinese living there
Wow I'd like to visit here I'm 70 years old now and I last visited there with my bf my hubby ,my age is 21...
Maganda jan nakapunta na ako jan
It is lot spacious now ... beautiful
Wow nice I always there with my friends in k H. Time since 1990s I miss that place 🙏♥️
ask lang ko open na ba ni karun?
Were taoist (buddhist) and hindu the main religion in the philipines befroe christian took place?
The pre-colonial filipino back then didn't have an established religion, they believed in animism, a belief that everything in this world has a spirit and that there is no difference between the physical and spiritual world kagaya ng Shinto ng Japan, Some parts of the pre-colonial philippines though especially the southern part like butuan are buddhist...
Bisaya were Vajrayana Buddhists mixed with Animism, the Tagalogs were Muslims mixed with Animism, the reason why there's a lot of Taoist temples in Cebu is because this has been populated by Chinese Hokkien traders even before the Spanish arrival, and when the non Catholic, most Taoist Hokkien Chinese were massacred in Manila (twice) by the Catholic Tagalogs and the Spaniards, the non Catholic Chinese ethnics fled south to where they found refuge among the Cebuanos and other Bisaya people.
And since Cebu already had a large Chinese ethnic population it was easier for them to integrate and over time their Taoist tradition was continued from generation to generation until now, this Taoist temple is actually just 1 out of 3 Taoist temples in Cebu, so there's two more this one is just the most famous.
The oldest house in the country is in Cebu, it was built by a Chinese mestizo family in the 16th century, that time the Spanish just started invading the Philippines.
If you look at the architecture of this house, called the Yap-Sandiego house, it is similar to a lot of other very old houses in Cebu and Bohol, which cannot be seen in Luzon. Collectively in Bisaya we call this style of architecture as TAL architecture, it is not exclusive to ethnic Chinese ethnics since a lot of old non Chinese, Bisaya houses also have this architecture. Tal in Bisaya means very old, prominent or established, native household, so this architecture is not ethnic Chinese but Bisaya in general.
@@kookyyt3957 Bisaya were Vajrayana Buddhists mixed with Animism, Butuan is a Bisaya region, Awi or Siagu the ruler of Butuan and Surigao, is the brother of Kolambo of Leyte and cousin of Humabon of Cebu. Butuan is from the Bisaya word but-hoan which means school, "but"is similar sounding to the sanskrit "bud", which means learning, now combine that with the Bisaya suffix for area "hoan", you have "but/bud" + "hoan"= but-hoan or bod-hoan or butuan which means school.
How much ang intrance fee
There is no entrance fee