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Tiantai Mountain

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Tiantai Mountain, Mount Tiantai, or Tiantai Shan is a mountain in Tiantai County near the city of Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. [1]

22 relations: China, Fuji (planchette writing), Gonggong, Guoqing Temple, Heptacodium, Japan, Ji Gong, List of mountains in China, List of national parks of China, Lotus Sutra, Mount Buzhou, Nüwa, Saichō, Song dynasty, Sui dynasty, Taiwan, Taizhou, Zhejiang, Tendai, Tiantai, Tiantai County, Zhejiang, Zhiyi.

China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Fuji (planchette writing)

Fuji is a method of "planchette writing", or "spirit writing", that uses a suspended sieve or tray to guide a stick which writes Chinese characters in sand or incense ashes.

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Gonggong

Gonggong, also known as Kanghui, is a Chinese water god or monster who is often depicted in Chinese mythology, folktales, and religious stories as having red hair and the tail of a serpent or dragon.

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Guoqing Temple

The Guoqing Temple is a Buddhist temple on Mount Tiantai, in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

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Heptacodium

Heptacodium miconioides has the common name 七子花 qi zi hua in Standard Chinese - of which the English common name Seven Son Flower (of Zhejiang) is a translation.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Ji Gong

Ji Gong (2 February 1130 – 16 May 1209 Birthdate Lunar 2nd Month, 2nd Day), born Li Xiuyuan and also known as "Chan Master Daoji" was a Chan Buddhist monk who lived in the Southern Song.

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List of mountains in China

The following is an incomplete list of mountains in the People's Republic of China, sorted in alphabetical order.

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List of national parks of China

In China, is the exact equivalent of the term 'national park' applied to the rest of the world, as specified in the National Standard of the People's Republic of China GB50298-1999: Code for Scenic Area Planning, and in the Green Paper: Situation and Prospects of China's Scenic Areas published by the Ministry of Construction in 1994.

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Lotus Sutra

The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: सद्धर्मपुण्डरीक सूत्र, literally "Sūtra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma") is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras, and the basis on which the Tiantai, Tendai, Cheontae, and Nichiren schools of Buddhism were established.

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Mount Buzhou

Mount Buzhou was an ancient Chinese mythological mountain which according to old texts lay to the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains, in a location today referred to as the Pamir Mountains.

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Nüwa

Nüwa or Nügua is the mother goddess of Chinese mythology, the sister and wife of Fuxi, the emperor-god.

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Saichō

was a Japanese Buddhist monk credited with founding the Tendai school of Buddhism based on the Chinese Tiantai school he was exposed to during his trip to Tang China beginning in 804.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.

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Sui dynasty

The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China of pivotal significance.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Taizhou, Zhejiang

Taizhou (pronunciation in PRC Standard Mandarin), previously known as Taichow, is a city on the eastern coast of China's Zhejiang province, facing the East China Sea.

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Tendai

is a Mahayana Buddhist school established in Japan in the year 806 by a monk named Saicho also known as.

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Tiantai

Tiantai is a school of Buddhism in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam that reveres the Lotus Sutra as the highest teaching in Buddhism.

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Tiantai County

Tiantai County (Tai-chow dialect: T'in-t'e yön) is located in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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Zhiyi

Zhiyi (Chigi) (538–597 CE) is traditionally listed as the fourth patriarch, but is generally considered the founder of the Tiantai tradition of Buddhism in China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiantai_Mountain

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