Whose Dojo is Putuo Mountain?

Putuo Mountain is the Dojo of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Putuo Mountain is located in the southern edge of Hangzhou Bay, Putuo District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, and in the eastern waters of Zhoushan Islands. The terrain is rhombic, and it is one of Zhoushan Islands 1390 islands. It is shaped like a black dragon lying in the sea, with an area of about 12.52 square kilometers. Across the sea from shenjiamen in Zhoushan Archipelago, it is known as the "Buddha Country at Sea" and "Holy Land of the South China Sea". According to legend, Putuo Mountain is the Dojo where avalokitesvara teaches all beings.

Whose Dojo is Putuo Mountain?

As a Guanyin Dojo, Putuo Mountain was founded in the Tang Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty (847-860), a monk came to the mountain to worship Buddha. It is said that Guanyin was seen in Yin Chao Cave. In the fourth year of Tang Xiantong (863), the monk Master Hua Hui invited Guanyin to return to China by boat from Wutai Mountain. When the ship arrived at Lianhuayang, it was very stormy. After several trips, I can't do it. Therefore, he thought that Guanyin refused to cross eastward, and left an icon beside the Yin Chao Cave, so he called it "unwilling to go to Guanyin".

It is reported that during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, pilgrims who came to Putuo for pilgrimage often asked the Bodhisattva to bless them in front of Yin Chao Cave. In the future, I will go to Brahma Cave to ask Master Guanyin to appear. Pilgrims often jump off cliffs and die, so as to die in the western paradise. So Dinghai County ordered Xiang Ying to build a pavilion on the shore, and wrote a book "Jie" to erect a monument, forbidding abstinence.

Guanyin statue in the South China Sea is located at the top of Longwan Mountain in the southeast of Putuo Mountain Scenic Area. The total height of Guanyin in Nanhai is 33 meters, including abutment 13 meters, bronze statue 18 meters, and lotus base 2 meters, weighing more than 70 tons. The basic floor of the Buddha statue is the Gongde Hall, with an area of 1 1,000 square meters. The upper floor is dedicated to 500 different bronze statues of Guanyin, and the lower hall is themed with the scenery of Putuo Mountain, decorated with large boxwood carvings and colorful jade carvings of Guanyin's miraculous story.