Blessed Land 59: Zhanggong Cave福地五十九 张公洞
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Jiangsu · Yixing, Wuxi · Zhanggong Cave, Huqu Township, Yixing
- Coordinates
- 31.25, 119.75 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
59th of the Seventy-two Blessed Lands: 'in Yixing county, Chang prefecture, administered by the Perfected Kang Sang,' identified with the Zhanggong Cave in Yixing today, a limestone karst cave traditionally said to have been a place of cultivation for Zhang Daoling of the Han and Zhang Guo of the Tang; the cave preserves Daoist inscriptions from the Ming and Qing.