Lesser Grotto 1: Mount Huotong小洞天一 霍桐山洞（霍林洞天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Fujian · Jiaocheng, Ningde · Mount Huotong (Mount Zhiti), Huotong township
- Coordinates
- 26.85, 119.45 Map ↗
- First built
- Same as above · The Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands system took shape in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties; the roster of names was fixed in the Tang by Sima Chengzhen and Du Guangting. Present-day identifications are conjectural.
Overview
The first of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the "Grotto-Heaven of Huolin," governed by the immortal Wang Weixuan. Today it is Mount Huotong in Ningde, Fujian; the Perfected Huotong of the Zhou dynasty is said to have cultivated the Dao here, and Ge Hong of the Jin, Chu Boyu of the Southern Dynasties, and Sima Chengzhen of the Tang all traveled here; the Helin Palace on the mountain was an early Daoist temple in Fujian, and from the Song onward the Buddhist Zhiti Temple flourished there as well.