Lesser Grotto 19: Mount Gaizhu小洞天十九 盖竹山洞（长耀宝光天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Zhejiang · Huangyan, Taizhou / Linhai · Mount Gaizhu on the Huangyan–Linhai border (around Baishuiyang, Linhai)
- Coordinates
- 28.85, 121.1 Map ↗
- First built
- Same as above · The Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands system took shape in the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties, with the list of names fixed in the Tang by Sima Chengzhen and Du Guangting; the present-day location is a scholarly inference.
Overview
The nineteenth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of Enduring Radiance and Precious Light,” governed by the Immortal Shangqiuzi. Identified with present-day Mount Gaizhu in Taizhou, Zhejiang (straddling Huangyan and Linhai); the mountain has Gaizhu Cave and was a site of Daoist cultivation in the Tang and Song.