Blessed Land 36: Mount Gezao福地三十六 阁皂山
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Jiangxi · Zhangshu, Yichun · Mount Gezao
- Coordinates
- 27.96, 115.63 Map ↗
- School
- Lingbao (Numinous Treasure) School
- First built
- Same as above · The system of Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands took shape during the Eastern Jin and the Southern Dynasties; the Tang Daoists Sima Chengzhen and Du Guangting fixed the list of names. The precise present-day location is a matter of scholarly conjecture.
Overview
The thirty-sixth of the Seventy-two Blessed Lands: “It lies in Xingan County, Jizhou, and is governed by the Perfected Guo.” Du Guangting’s Record of Grotto-Heavens, Blessed Lands, Marchmounts, Rivers and Famous Mountains ranks it instead as the thirty-third Blessed Land (the source of the name “the thirty-third Blessed Land under Heaven” used at Zhangshu today); it is the ancestral court of the Lingbao School. See the entry “Mount Gezao” for further detail.