Mount Putuo

"Mount Putuo" in Chinese characters

普陀山

Literal meaning

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Pǔtuó shān
Wade–Giles	P'u³-t'o² shan¹
IPA	[pʰùtʰwǒ ʂán]
Wu
Romanization	Phù-dou sẽ
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Póu-tòh sāan
Jyutping	Pou2-to4 saan1
Southern Min
Tâi-lô	Phóo-tôo san

Photograph by Scottish photographer John Thomson, 1867.

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Mount Putuo (Chinese: 普陀山; pinyin: Pǔtuó Shān, from Sanskrit: "Mount Potalaka") is an island in Putuo District, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China. It is a renowned site in Chinese Buddhism and is the bodhimaṇḍa of the bodhisattva Guanyin.

Mount Putuo is one of the four sacred mountains in Chinese Buddhism, the others being Mount Wutai, Mount Jiuhua, and Mount Emei (bodhimaṇḍas for Manjushri, Kṣitigarbha, and Samantabhadra, respectively).

Mount Putuo lies in the East China Sea and incorporates the beauty of both mountain and sea. Mountain Putuo is at 29°58′3～30°02′3 north latitude, 122°21′6～122°24′9 east longitude. Its area is approximately 12.5 square kilometres (4.8 sq mi) and there are numerous famous temples. Every year on the 19th day of the 2nd, 6th and 9th lunar months of the Chinese calendar, it welcomes millions of people for the celebration of the birth of Guanyin.