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Blessed Land 2: Mount Gaizhu福地二 盖竹山

Type
Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
Location
China · Zhejiang · Quzhou (alternatively Taizhou) · The Chart of the Palaces and Bureaus of Heaven and Earth places it in Xiandu County, Quzhou; according to one account it is identical with Mount Gaizhu in Taizhou
Coordinates
28.95, 118.85 Map
First built
Same as above · The Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands system took shape in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties, with the list of names fixed in the Tang by Sima Chengzhen and Du Guangting; the present-day location is a scholarly inference.

Overview

The second of the Seventy-two Blessed Lands, described as lying “in Xiandu County, Quzhou, governed by the Perfected Shi Cun”; there is also a Gaizhu Mountain Grotto-Heaven in Huangyan, Taizhou, and the two may record a single site under different names. The present-day location is conjectured to be Quzhou, Zhejiang.

Related scriptures

Chart of the Palaces and Bureaus of Heaven and Earth, Record of Grotto-Heavens, Blessed Lands, Marchmounts, Rivers and Famous Mountains, Seven Slips from the Bookbag of the Clouds (Yunji qiqian)