Lesser Grotto 33: Mount Zigai小洞天三十三 紫盖山洞（紫玄洞照天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Hubei · Xiangyang (alternatively Jingzhou) · Mount Zigai, south of Xiangyang (conjectural)
- Coordinates
- 32, 112.2 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 thirty-third of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of Purple Mystery's Cavernous Radiance,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Gongsun. The Chart of the Palaces and Bureaus of Heaven and Earth states that it lies “in Dangyang County, Jingzhou”; it is now conjectured to correspond to the area of Mount Jing and Mount Zigai in Hubei, though the exact location remains undetermined.