Tiantai Mountain

Mountain in Zhejiang, China

"Mount Tiantai" redirects here. For other uses, see Mount Tiantai (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Mount Tai.

Not to be confused with Mount Liantai.

Tiantai Mountain

A view of Tiantai Mountain and the pagoda of Guoqing Temple, constructed during the Sui dynasty (6th century CE).

Highest point
Elevation| 1,138 m (3,734 ft)
Coordinates| 29°10′44″N 121°02′32″E﻿ / ﻿29.178843°N 121.042213°E﻿ / 29.178843; 121.042213
Geography

Tiantai Mountain

Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China

| Tian Tai Shan Scenic Area

IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)[1]

Area| 105 km2 (41 sq mi)
Designation| Scenic Area
Designated| 1985
Tiantai Shan

Chinese| 天台山
Hanyu Pinyin| PRC Standard Mandarin:
Tiāntāi Shān
ROC Standard Mandarin:
Tiāntái Shān
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| PRC Standard Mandarin:
Tiāntāi Shān
ROC Standard Mandarin:
Tiāntái Shān
Bopomofo| PRC: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄊㄞ ㄕㄢ
ROC: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄊㄞˊ ㄕㄢ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh| PRC: Tiantai Shan
ROC: Tiantair Shan
Wade–Giles| PRC: T‘ien1-t‘ai1 Shan1
ROC: T‘ien1-t‘ai2 Shan1
Tongyong Pinyin| PRC: Tiantai Shan
ROC: Tiantái Shan
Yale Romanization| PRC: Tyāntāi Shān
ROC: Tyāntái Shān
MPS2| PRC: Tiāntāi Shān
ROC: Tiāntái Shān
IPA| PRC: [tʰjɛ́n.tʰáɪ ʂán]
ROC: [tʰjɛ́n.tʰǎɪ ʂán]
Guoqing Temple on Tiantai Mountain, originally built in 598 CE during the Sui dynasty, and renovated during the reign of the Qing Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1722-1735).

Tiantai Mountain (also Tí Taî in the local language) is a mountain in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China.[2] Its highest peak, Huading, reaches a height of 1,138 meters (3,734 ft).[2] The mountain was made a national park on 1 August 1988.[citation needed] One of nine remaining wild populations of Seven-Son Flower (Heptacodium miconioides) is located on mount Tiantai.[3]

## Legends

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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.[4] A local myth holds that Tiantai was on the turtle's back before and Nüwa relocated it to its current position when she had to remove the turtle's legs.[citation needed]

## Guoqing Temple

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Guoqing Temple on the mountain is the headquarters of Tiantai Buddhism,[5] 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.[5] The most prominent teacher of that school, Zhiyi, was based at Guoqing Temple.[5] Over many years it has been an important destination for pilgrims, especially from Japan. The mountain was visited by Saichō in 805 CE, who went on to found the related Japanese Buddhist school, Tendai. A Korean offshoot, the Cheontae school, was also established during the 12th century.

## Ji Gong Temple

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The mountain has a famous 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.[6]

## Scenic Area

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Tiantai Mountain was designated a scenic area in 1985, with an area of 105 km2.[1]

A panorama of Tiantai Mountain.

## Transport

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* Tiantaishan railway station

## References

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1. ^ a b UNEP-WCMC (2023). Protected Area Profile for Tian Tai Shan from the World Database on Protected Areas. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
2. ^ a b "Tí Taî Mountain Scenic Area". Retrieved March 8, 2011.
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. ^ a b c 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.

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