Dongshan Yolin Temple, Stone deity temple in Nandong Village, Yuanlin City, Changhua County, Taiwan

Dongshan Yolin Temple is a stone-god temple in Nandong Village, Yuanlin City, Changhua County. Its centerpiece is a stone about two chi eight cun tall, inscribed with the three characters "石陀佛" (Stone Buddha). The site also has a three-chuan-style gate tower, built after a 1995 members' meeting approved it, contracted in November 1997 and completed in October 1998.

According to legend, children drowned in an irrigation channel of the Babao Canal in the Qing era, and residents piled stones to ward off ghosts; later a spirit medium said the Stone Buddha had possessed him and told villagers to dig where a light appeared, uncovering a 2-foot-8-inch stone inscribed with the characters 石陀佛. In July 1915, Cao Mingshan of Hushuikeng donated land and funds to build a temple beside his fields. In 1977 Jiang Qihua led fundraising to rebuild and install the deity, and the next year Jiang Kunxian and Jiang Zaixin formed a management committee. In 1995 the committee approved a three-bay gate, contracted in November 1997 and finished in October 1998.

The temple honours Shifo Gong, the Stone Buddha deity, with his birthday on the 16th day of the first lunar month. At Dragon Boat Festival, worshippers join the Nandongli development association to wrap zongzi and give them to members and residents. In 1918, two men from Dongguang in Yuchi vowed here to stop gambling if they returned home safely; they later built a three-slab stone shrine in their village.

The temple stands in Nandong Village, Yuanlin City, Changhua County; its festival day is the 16th of the first lunar month, when crowds gather for the stone Buddha's birthday. The three-bay gate tower completed in October 1998 marks the main entrance. Look for the stone said to bear the characters 石陀佛, the object around which the shrine grew.

The temple's name appears on a stone unearthed after a medium said the stone buddha had possessed him; villagers dug where a light had been seen and found a two-foot-eight-inch stone carved with the characters 石陀佛. The shrine in Yuchi, Nantou, traces its origin to two men from Dongguang who vowed during a temple festival in 1918 to stop gambling if they returned home safely, then built a three-slab stone shrine.