Wutai Mountain (alias: Liang Qingshan and Jin Wutai Mountain) is located in the northeast of Wutai County, Shanxi Province. It is the first of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, and is called "Wutai Mountain" because it is surrounded by five peaks. Wutai Mountain is said to be the Dojo of Manjusri Bodhisattva. Wutai Mountain is the only Buddhist Dojo in China where the Green Temple and the Yellow Temple complement each other, and its heyday is the Tang Dynasty.
According to Gu Liang Zhuan, there are as many as 300 temples in the whole mountain, and there are 47 existing temples. The Huayan Sutra of Dafang Guangfo says: "There is a place called Liang Qing in the northeast. From the past, all bodhisattvas stopped in the middle. The existing Bodhisattvas, namely Manjusri Bodhisattva and its family members, all the Bodhisattvas, ten thousand people, often live in them and speak. "
Shanxi province
Shanxi (abbreviation: Jin, nickname: Sanjin, formerly known as Hedong), a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), is located in Taiyuan, the provincial capital city, on the loess plateau on the east bank of the middle reaches of the Yellow River and west of the North China Plain. East of Taihang Mountain, adjacent to Hebei. West and south are separated by the Yellow River, facing Shaanxi and Henan; It is bordered by the Great Wall in the north and Inner Mongolia.
Shanxi is a provincial administrative region with a total area of 156700 square kilometers, 1 1 districts and cities, 1 17 county-level administrative units. Shanxi is known as "the cradle of Chinese civilization" and "China Museum of Ancient Culture". Shanxi is one of the earliest cradles and central areas of human and Chinese civilization.