Tiantai Mountain
Tiantai Mountain (C. Tiantai shan 天台山) is a mountain in Zhejiang Province, China, associated with the Tiantai zong, one of the main historical traditions of Chinese Buddhism. The founder of the Tiantai zong, Tiantai Zhiyi lived on the mountain for many years, and the first temple of the Tiantai tradition, the Guoqing Temple, is located on the mountain.[1]
The mountain and temple have been an important destination for pilgrims, especially from Japan. The mountain was visited by Japanese scholar Saichō in 805 CE, who went on to found the related Japanese Buddhist school, Tendai.
The name Tiantai translates as "Heavenly Terrace."[2]
Ji Gong Temple
The mountain has a famous temple to the Song-era Chinese Buddhist monk Ji Gong at the Cave of Auspicious Mists that was associated with early modern fuji or "spirit writing" movements.[3]
Mythological origin story
According to Chinese mythology, the creator goddess Nüwa cut the legs off a giant sea turtle (Chinese: 鳌; pinyin: áo) and used them to prop up the sky after the water god Gong Gong damaged Mount Buzhou, which had previously supported the heavens.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Ziporyn, Brook (Winter 2022). "Tiantai Buddhism". In Zalta, Edward N. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. ISSN 1095-5054. OCLC 643092515. Archived from the original on 13 November 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Katz, Paul R. (1 April 2014). Religion in China and Its Modern Fate. Brandeis University Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-61168-543-5.
- ↑ Yang, Lihui; An, Deming; Jessica Anderson Turner (2008). Handbook of Chinese Mythology. Oxford University Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-19-533263-6.
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