 | Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China''s Mount Wutai Subjects: Wutai Mountains (China) -- History; Buddhist architecture -- China -- Wutai Mountains; Buddhist monasteries -- China -- Wutai Mountains; Buddhism and culture -- China -- Wutai Mountains; By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī (known for his habit of riding around the mountain on a lion), the site in northeastern China's Shanxi Province was transformed from a wild area, long believed by Daoists to be sacred, into an elaborate complex of Buddhist monasteries. Wei-Cheng Lin is assistant professor of Chinese art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
