Blessed Land 44: Mount Tongbai福地四十四 桐柏山
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Henan · Tongbai, Nanyang · Mount Tongbai (source of the Huai River)
- Coordinates
- 32.35, 113.4 Map ↗
- First built
- Same as above · The system of Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands took shape in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties; the Tang-dynasty Sima Chengzhen and Du Guangting fixed the list of names. Present-day locations are identifications made in later times.
Overview
44th of the Seventy-two Blessed Lands: 'in Tongbai county, Tang prefecture, under the administration of the Immortal Lord Li,' identified with present-day Mount Tongbai in Henan, the source of the Huai River — distinct from the Tongbai in Tiantai, Zhejiang.