| Hua-shan (華山 Huà Shān; Xīyuè 西岳) China's Western Sacred Daoist-Imperial Mountain |
The Holy Qinling-shan Mountain-Range
Famen Buddhist Temple with Sarira Pagoda
Maiji-shan Buddhist Grottoes
Zhongnan-shan Daoist Mountains
China Sacred Mtns Index Page
San-shin Site Contents Page
Famen Buddhist Temple with Sarira Pagoda
Maiji-shan Buddhist Grottoes
Zhongnan-shan Daoist Mountains
China Sacred Mtns Index Page
San-shin Site Contents Page
| UNDER CONSTRUCTION See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hua |
The Western Great Imperial/Daoist Mountain [Xīyuè] is named Huà Shān 華山
[Splendid, Illustrious, Flowery or Flower Mountain] and sits in the southwestern corner of Shānxī
Province (as the last prominent mountains of the sacred Qingling Range), with a 1,997-meter summit.
This is the only one of the Five Marchmounts that actually was a major residential, teaching, practice
and hermitage center of Chinese Daoism. It still hosts many temples and shrines, although with little
authentic religious or spiritual practices being conducted, as far as I now know; it is a very popular
tourism & pilgrimage destination. Its upper hiking-trails are the most dangerous/precarious in the world!
[Splendid, Illustrious, Flowery or Flower Mountain] and sits in the southwestern corner of Shānxī
Province (as the last prominent mountains of the sacred Qingling Range), with a 1,997-meter summit.
This is the only one of the Five Marchmounts that actually was a major residential, teaching, practice
and hermitage center of Chinese Daoism. It still hosts many temples and shrines, although with little
authentic religious or spiritual practices being conducted, as far as I now know; it is a very popular
tourism & pilgrimage destination. Its upper hiking-trails are the most dangerous/precarious in the world!
