Blessed Land 53: Mount De福地五十三 德山
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Hunan · Changde · Deshan, Changde (Altar of Shan Juan)
- Coordinates
- 29, 111.72 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
53rd of the Seventy-two Blessed Lands: 'in Wuling county, Lang prefecture, under the administration of the Immortal Zhang Jujun,' identified with present-day Deshan in Changde, said in tradition to be the hermitage of Shan Juan in high antiquity; the mountain preserves the Qianming Temple (Buddhist) and the remains of the Shande Abbey.