Lesser Grotto 7: Mount Emei小洞天七 峨眉山洞（虚陵洞天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Sichuan · Mount Emei, Leshan · Mount Emei
- Coordinates
- 29.52, 103.33 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 seventh of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the "Grotto-Heaven of Empty Tomb," governed by the immortal Tang Lan. This is Mount Emei in Sichuan, a renowned Daoist mountain before the Tang, which after the Song gradually became a site of Buddhist practice associated with Samantabhadra (Puxian). See the appendix entry "Mount Emei" for further detail.