Tiantai Mountain
{{Short description|Mountain in Zhejiang, China}}
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| location = Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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{{Chinese
|title=Tiantai Shan|c=天台山|p=PRC Standard Mandarin:
Tiāntāi Shān
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File:Guoqingsi005r.jpg 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/zhejiang/hangzhou/mt_tiantai.htm|title=Tí Taî Mountain Scenic Area|accessdate=March 8, 2011}} Its highest peak, Huading, reaches a height of {{convert|1,138|m|ft|sp=us}}. The mountain was made a national park on 1 August 1988.{{cn|date=December 2023}} One of nine remaining wild populations of Seven-Son Flower (Heptacodium miconioides) is located on mount Tiantai.{{Cite journal | last1 = Lu | first1 = H. P. | last2 = Cai | first2 = Y. W. | last3 = Chen | first3 = X. Y. | last4 = Zhang | first4 = X. | last5 = Gu | first5 = Y. J. | last6 = Zhang | first6 = G. F. | doi = 10.1007/s10709-006-7542-x | title = High RAPD but no cpDNA sequence variation in the endemic and endangered plant, Heptacodium miconioides Rehd. (Caprifoliaceae) | journal = Genetica | volume = 128 | issue = 1–3 | pages = 409–417 | year = 2006 | pmid = 17028968}}
Legends
In the mythology of Traditional Chinese religion, the creator goddess Nüwa cut the legs off a giant sea turtle ({{zh|c=鳌|p=áo}}) and used them to prop up the sky after Gong Gong damaged Mount Buzhou, which had previously supported the heavens.{{cite book|last1=Yang|first1=Lihui|last2=An|first2=Deming|author3=Jessica Anderson Turner|title=Handbook of Chinese Mythology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tUwTxocaOGsC&pg=PA182|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-533263-6|page=182}} 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|date=June 2015}}
Guoqing Temple
Guoqing Temple on the mountain is the headquarters of Tiantai Buddhism,{{cite encyclopedia |last=Ziporyn |first=Brook |date=Winter 2022 |title=Tiantai Buddhism |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddhism-tiantai/ |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |editor-link=Edward N. Zalta |encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University |issn=1095-5054 |oclc=643092515 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113204938/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddhism-tiantai/ |archive-date=13 November 2022 |access-date=1 December 2022}} 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. 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
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.{{cite book|last=Katz|first=Paul R.|title=Religion in China and Its Modern Fate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KA2dAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA145|date=1 April 2014|publisher=Brandeis University Press|isbn=978-1-61168-543-5|page=145}}
Scenic Area
Tiantai Mountain was designated a scenic area in 1985, with an area of 105 km2.UNEP-WCMC (2023). [https://www.protectedplanet.net/39569 Protected Area Profile for Tian Tai Shan] from the World Database on Protected Areas. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
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{{wide image|Tiantai Mountain.jpg|1000px|align-cap=center|A panorama of Tiantai Mountain.}}
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