Tiantai Mountain

Tiantai Mountain
Tiantai Mountain and the pagoda of Guoqing Temple, built in the 6th century CE.
Highest point
Elevation1,138 m (3,734 ft)
Coordinates29°10′44″N 121°02′32″E / 29.178843°N 121.042213°E / 29.178843; 121.042213
Geography
Tiantai Mountain is located in Zhejiang
Tiantai Mountain
Tiantai Mountain
Location within Zhejiang
LocationTiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Parent rangeZhejiang–Fujian Hills
Tiantai Shan
Chinese天台山
Hanyu PinyinPRC Standard Mandarin:
Tiāntāi Shān
ROC Standard Mandarin:
Tiāntái Shān
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinPRC Standard Mandarin:
Tiāntāi Shān
ROC Standard Mandarin:
Tiāntái Shān
BopomofoPRC: ㄊㄧㄢ   ㄊㄞ   ㄕㄢ
ROC: ㄊㄧㄢ   ㄊㄞˊ   ㄕㄢ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhPRC: Tiantai Shan
ROC: Tiantair Shan
Wade–GilesPRC: T‘ien1-t‘ai1 Shan1
ROC: T‘ien1-t‘ai2 Shan1
Tongyong PinyinPRC: Tiantai Shan
ROC: Tiantái Shan
Yale RomanizationPRC: Tyāntāi Shān
ROC: Tyāntái Shān
MPS2PRC: Tiāntāi Shān
ROC: Tiāntái Shān
IPAPRC: [tʰjɛ́n.tʰáɪ ʂán]
ROC: [tʰjɛ́n.tʰǎɪ ʂán]
Guoqing Temple, built on Tiantai Mountain in 598 CE, renovated in the 18th century

Tiantai Mountain (also Tí Taî in the local language) is a mountain in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Its highest peak, Huading, reaches a height of 1,138 meters (3,734 ft).

It 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.

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.

A panorama of Tiantai Mountain.

Transport

References

  1. 1 2 "Tí Taî Mountain Scenic Area". Retrieved March 8, 2011.
  2. ↑ UNEP-WCMC (2023). Protected Area Profile for Tian Tai Shan from the World Database on Protected Areas. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  3. ↑ Lu, H. P.; Cai, Y. W.; Chen, X. Y.; Zhang, X.; Gu, Y. J.; Zhang, G. F. (2006). "High RAPD but no cpDNA sequence variation in the endemic and endangered plant, Heptacodium miconioides Rehd. (Caprifoliaceae)". Genetica. 128 (1–3): 409–417. doi:10.1007/s10709-006-7542-x. PMID 17028968.
  4. ↑ Yang, Lihui; An, Deming; Jessica Anderson Turner (2008). Handbook of Chinese Mythology. Oxford University Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-19-533263-6.
  5. 1 2 3 Ziporyn, Brook (Winter 2022). "Tiantai Buddhism". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. ISSN 1095-5054. OCLC 643092515. Archived from the original on 13 November 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  6. ↑ Katz, Paul R. (1 April 2014). Religion in China and Its Modern Fate. Brandeis University Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-61168-543-5.