"You won't find as colorful or as convoluted a place in all of Taiwan," says Lin Shih-tsung, a Panchiao resident who is at the moment crouching off to the side of the courtyard eavesdropping on a discussion of Buddhist doctrine.
「全台灣你找不到一個像龍山寺這麼多采多姿的地方了」，家住板橋、蹲在廟埕一隅聽人辯論佛理的林悉聰說。