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Chinese Text

Temple Board, Golden Point

Date Published

:  Board
:  Traditional
:  AI

The main inscription, read right to left, is:

風雲

Translation:
A spirit that commands the winds and clouds.


Side inscriptions (marginal text)

Right-hand vertical inscription (date):
同治七年歲次戊辰季冬吉日

Translation:
“An auspicious day in the last winter month of the year wuchen, the seventh year of the Tongzhi reign”
→ 1868


Left-hand vertical inscription (dedication / donor):
恩弟子林河西堂敬
“Respectfully presented by the grateful disciple Lin, of Hexi Hall”

(林 Lin is the surname; 河西堂 Hexi Hall is likely a studio name, shop name, or lineage/association name.)