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.