Tiantai Mountain
Mountain in Zhejiang, China
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursIt was designated a scenic area in 1985, with an area of 105 km2.
One of nine remaining wild populations of Seven-Son Flower (Heptacodium miconioides) is located on mount Tiantai.
Legends
In the mythology of Traditional Chinese religion, the creator goddess Nüwa cut the legs off a giant sea turtle (Chinese: 鳌; pinyin: áo) and used them to prop up the sky after Gong Gong damaged Mount Buzhou, which had previously supported the heavens.
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Guoqing Temple
Guoqing Temple on the mountain is the headquarters of Tiantai Buddhism, and also a tourist destination. Tiantai, named for the mountain, is an East Asian Buddhist school of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed in 6th-century China and focuses on the Lotus Sutra. The most prominent teacher of that school, Zhiyi, was based at Guoqing Temple.
Ji Gong Temple
The mountain has a temple to the Song-era Chinese Buddhist monk Ji Gong at the Cave of Auspicious Mists that was associated with early modern fuji or "spirit writing" movements.
Transport
- Tiantaishan railway station