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Mount Putuo (Chinese: 普陀山; pinyin: Pǔtuó Shān, from Sanskrit: "Mount Potalaka") is an island in Putuo District, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China. It is a renowned site in Chinese Buddhism and is the bodhimaṇḍa of the bodhisattva Guanyin. Mount Putuo is one of the four sacred mountains in Chinese Buddhism, the others being Mount Wutai ...
Fayu Temple is the second largest temple in Mount Putuo, and a national key Buddhist temple designated by the State Council. In 1580 during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), a monk of Macheng, named Dazhi Zhenrong (大智真融), came from western Sichuan to Mount Putuo for training. He was attracted by the local scenery and built a small ...
Puji Temple is the largest Buddhist temple in Mount Putuo, the temple is also the main temple enshrining Guanyin. It is known as "Front Temple" since it located in the southern foot of Lingjiu Peak. Along the central axis are Shanmen, Four Heavenly Kings Hall, Mahavira Hall, Yuantong Hall, Buddhist Texts Library, etc.
South Putuo or Nanputuo (Chinese: 南普陀寺; pinyin: Nán Pǔtuó Sì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâm Phó͘-tô Sī) is a famous Buddhist temple founded in the Tang dynasty in the Chinese city of Xiamen. [1] It is so named because it is south of the Buddhist holy site Mount Putuo in Zhejiang Province.
Set four years on from the events of Shanghai Baby, Marrying Buddha continues the story of Coco, a writer from Shanghai, now aged 29. The plot intersperses Coco's adventures in New York City, and later in Madrid, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, with her journey in China from Shanghai to the Buddhist monastery on Mount Putuo (Putuoshan).
Egaku did not travel to Tang China as part of an official mission from Japan in contrast to some of his monastic contemporaries. However, his travel was on the personal behest of the Empress Dowager Tachibana Kachiko, a devout Buddhist with religious and literary renown, [12]: 348–356 [note 11] who was curious about Zen Buddhism after talking to Kūkai.
Huiji Temple is situated at the top of Mount Putuo, so it also known as the "Buddha Summit" at an altitude of 291.3-metre (956 ft), the highest point on Mount Putuo. [1] Originally it was just a stone pagoda with a Buddhist statue inside. It was built in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) by renowned monk Yuanhui (圆慧).
Foguangshan Foundation for Buddhist Culture and Education (佛光山文教基金會) (1989). 義空 [Yikong]. 佛光山大詞典 (Foguangshan Dictionary of Buddhism) (in Traditional Chinese). p. 7010. ISBN 9789574571956. Groner, Paul (1997). Ryogen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824822606.