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[[File:Mount Putuo.jpg|thumb|Mount Putuo]]
'''Mount Putuo''' ('''普陀山''') is one of the [[Zhoushan Islands]] in the [[East China Sea]], and one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains in [[China]].

As the place where worshipping rites for Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, are held, Mount Putuo was dubbed “Buddha Land in the Vast Sea” in the [[Song Dynasty]] (960-1279).

There are three famous monasteries at Mount Putuo: Puji (Universal Relief) Temple, Huiji (Wisdom and Blessing) Temple, and Fayu (Dharma Rain) temple. It has also the Duobao Pagoda dating to the [[Yuan Dynasty]] (1279-1368); a stone tablet with a carved image of Guan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, dating to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644); and the “Nine-Dragon Hall” of the Ming Dynasty palace, which originally stood in [[Nanjing]] and was dismantled and reassembled on Mt. Putuo in early Qing Dynasty.

New additions to this Buddhist mountain in recent years include a stone pagoda with 500 arhats in bas-relief, a 33-m-tall bronze statue of the Goddess of Mercy in open air, and the red copper hall of the Zhengfajiang Temple that commands the highest point of Mt. Putuo.

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