Lesser Grotto 35: Mount Taoyuan小洞天三十五 桃源山洞（白马玄光天）
- Type
- Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands
- Location
- China · Hunan · Taoyuan, Changde · Taohuayuan, Taoyuan County (Mount Taoyuan)
- Coordinates
- 28.8, 111.35 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-fifth of the Thirty-six Lesser Grotto-Heavens, titled the “Heaven of the White Horse's Mysterious Light,” governed by the Immortal Perfected Xie. Identified with present-day Taohuayuan (Peach Blossom Spring) in Taoyuan, Hunan, named for Tao Yuanming's “Record of the Peach Blossom Spring”; the Taoyuan Temple was built in the Tang, and further temples were repeatedly built from the Song onward, with the Taochuan Palace among those surviving today.