Lesser Grotto 11: Mount Taibai小洞天十一 太白山洞（玄德洞天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Shaanxi · Meixian, Baoji / Taibai · Mount Taibai (the highest peak of the Qinling range, elevation 3,771 meters)
- Coordinates
- 33.96, 107.77 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 eleventh of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the "Grotto-Heaven of Mysterious Virtue," governed by the immortal Zhang Jilian. Today it is Mount Taibai in Shaanxi, the highest peak of the Qinling range, a renowned mountain for Daoist cultivation since the Tang; the mountain has the Taibai Temple, Baxian Terrace, and Dayehai (lake), among other sites, and Li Bai and Sun Simiao are said to have traveled here to gather herbs.