Lesser Grotto 12: Mount Xi (Nanchang)小洞天十二 西山洞（天柱宝极玄天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Jiangxi · Xinjian, Nanchang · Mount Xi (Mount Xiaoyao, site of the Wanshou Palace)
- Coordinates
- 28.5, 115.63 Map ↗
- School
- Jingming (Pure and Bright) Daoism
- 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 twelfth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the "Heaven of the Celestial Pillar and Treasured Ultimate Mystery," governed by the Perfected Tang Gongcheng. Today it is Mount Xi in Nanchang, where Xu Xun is said to have ascended to Heaven with his entire household, and the site of the Wanshou Palace of Xishan, the ancestral seat of Jingming Daoism. See the entry "Wanshou Palace of Xishan" for further detail.