Mount Putuo South Sea Guanyin Statue
Watching over East China Sea shipping and fishers, this solemn bronze Guanyin is the emblem of Mount Putuo, the Buddhist realm of sea and sky.
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Spatial Framework & Civilizational Geography · County-level
Pu Tuo District
The grand statue of Nanhai Guanyin crowns the sacred Buddhist island of Mount Putuo in Putuo, overlooking the fishing harbors of Shenjiamen.
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A place shaped through time
The grand statue of Nanhai Guanyin crowns the sacred Buddhist island of Mount Putuo in Putuo, overlooking the fishing harbors of Shenjiamen.
Pu Tuo District
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Puji Temple & Duobao Pagoda at Mount Putuo
The largest monastery on Mount Putuo, Puji Temple has served pilgrims for a millennium, its Yuan dynasty Duobao stone pagoda framed by lotuses in Haiyin Pond.
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Shenjiamen National Fishing Port Promenade
Often ranked among the world's three great fishing ports, Shenjiamen packs its long harbor with boats while seafood stalls tempt visitors along the promenade.
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Puji Temple Yuantong Hall & Haiyin Pool at Mount Putuo
Mount Putuo's largest temple, known as the Front Temple, enshrines an eight-metre seated Vairocana Guanyin, with three bridges spanning the lotus-filled Haiyin Pool before the hall.
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Fayu Temple Nine-Dragon Palace at Mount Putuo
The island's second great temple, Fayu Temple has a Nine-Dragon Hall that reuses glazed tiles and a nine-dragon caisson moved from the Ming palace in Nanjing.
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Huiji Temple on Bodhidharma Summit at Mount Putuo
Hidden in the forests of Foding Mountain, the third great temple has white-walled, black-tiled courtyards in Jiangnan style and protects the rare Putuo hornbeam.
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South Sea Guanyin Statue & Zizhulin at Mount Putuo
A thirty-three-metre gilded bronze Guanyin holding a Dharma wheel overlooks the spot where the Japanese monk Egaku began the Tang-era legend of the Guanyin Reluctant to Leave.
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