Lesser Grotto 34: Mount Tianmu小洞天三十四 天目山洞（天盖涤玄天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Zhejiang · Lin'an, Hangzhou · West Tianmu Mountain
- Coordinates
- 30.33, 119.43 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-fourth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of the Celestial Canopy's Cleansed Mystery,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Jiang. Identified with present-day Mount Tianmu in Lin'an, Zhejiang, a site of Daoist cultivation in the Jin and Tang, later a noted Buddhist mountain (Chanyuan Temple), famed for its grove of ancient cryptomeria trees.