South of Taichung is the old port town of Lu-kang. Here again we come face to face with Taiwan’s past, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Founded in the seventeenth century, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Lu-kang was an important port city with strong ties to Ch’uan-chou—the eighteenth-century classic but declining entrepôt of southern Min Fukien.

At the German department of the University of Timisoara (Temeswar) in the Banat, Romania, a number of Sathmar Swabian linguistic studies were completed during the 1970's.

The final number of search terms was 40.

They sit in the Vajraparyahka attitude and show in the two right hands the boon and the arrow drawn up to the ear, and in the two left hands the Utpala and the bow.