Blessed Land 68: Mount Jincheng福地六十八 金城山
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Sichuan (presumed) · Nanchong (alternatively Gansu) · 'At the garrison of Guxian, under the administration of the Perfected Shi,' alternatively identified with Mount Jincheng in Nanchong, Sichuan
- Coordinates
- 30.8, 106.1 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
68th of the Seventy-two Blessed Lands: 'at the garrison of Guxian, under the administration of the Perfected Shi'; 'Guxian garrison' cannot be identified with certainty, and later tradition has generally identified it with Mount Jincheng in Nanchong, Sichuan (Tang-dynasty Guo prefecture), though some place it in Gansu.