Longmen Mountains, Pengzhou龙门山（彭州）
- Type
- Daoist Sacred Mountains
- Location
- China · Sichuan · Pengzhou, Chengdu · Northwest of Pengzhou City, in the southern section of the Longmen mountain range, including Mount Yangping, Mount Gexian and Mount Danjing
- Coordinates
- 31.15, 103.75 Map ↗
- School
- Way of the Celestial Masters (Tianshi Dao), Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism
- First built
- Eastern Han · The “Yangping Parish,” foremost of the Twenty-four Parishes of the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice, was located here; Mount Gexian (formerly Mount Baishi) is traditionally held to be where the late Eastern Han fangshi Ge Yonggui (葛永璝, also written 葛永贵 or 葛璝) cultivated the Dao, and the Gegui Parish among the Twenty-four Parishes takes its name from this
- Heritage status
- Sichuan Provincial Cultural Heritage Site
Overview
The area of the Longmen Mountains in Pengzhou was one of the core regions of early Celestial Master Daoism. Of the Twenty-four Parishes established by Zhang Daoling, the “Yangping Parish” was the foremost, and its site lies at present-day Mount Yangping in Xinxing township, Pengzhou; the “Seal of the Overseer of Merit of the Yangping Parish,” used by the Celestial Masters in every generation as the seal that authenticates the transmission of the teaching, originates here, and the Yangping Temple stands on the site today. At Mount Gexian (formerly Mount Baishi), tradition holds that the late Eastern Han fangshi Ge Yonggui (葛永璝, also written 葛永贵 or 葛璝) cultivated the Dao and underwent feathered transformation, and the “Gegui Parish” among the Twenty-four Parishes takes its name from this; the mountains also hold Mount Danjing (the home of the tree peony), the Laojun Cave and other remains. Daoism has a long history in Pengzhou: temples proliferated from the Tang and Song onward, most were destroyed from the Yuan and Ming onward, and since the 1980s the Yangping Temple, Mount Gexian and other sites have been restored one after another. The Longmen Mountains were also among the areas worst hit by the Wenchuan earthquake of 2008, and a number of Daoist temples have been rebuilt since.
Highlights
- Yangping Temple (site of the Yangping Parish)
- Mount Gexian
- Mount Danjing
- Laojun Cave