5/24/2023 0 Comments Kwan yin oracleEven today visitors to the island will encounter monks in their traditional robes as they walk along the many paths that criss-cross the picturesque landscape. In its heyday, the island had eighty-two temples and nunneries together with some one hundred and twenty-eight shelters that between them housed 4,000 Buddhist monks and nuns. In due course, it became known as the “Heaven of the Sea and Kingdom of the Buddhists”. The island’s scenic beauty meant it was the perfect setting for temples and other religious buildings. The mountain is of one of four in the country that are held sacred by Buddhists and it was here that over the centuries a once large Buddhist community was to evolve. Putuoshan dominates the small rhomboidal land mass with its total area of about 12.5 square kilometres (4.8 square miles). These islands are in fact the peaks of submerged mountains and so rise steeply from the sea. Zhoushan City is situated on Zhoushan Island that in turn gives its name to a group of some four hundred small islands off the east coast of China in Zhejiang Province.
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