Mount Emei

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Mount Emei
Elevation	3,099 metres (10,167 feet)
Location	Sichuan, China
Coordinates	29°31′11″N, 103°19′57″E

Mount Emei (Chinese: 峨嵋山; pinyin: Éméi Shān; Wade-Giles: O²-mei² Shan¹, literally towering Eyebrow Mountain) is a mountain in Sichuan province of Western China. Often written as 峨眉山 and occasionally 峩嵋山 or 峩眉山, pronunciation doesn't alter.

Mt. Emei is one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. The patron bodhisattva of Emei is Samantabhadra, known in Chinese as Puxian. 16th and 17th century sources allude to the practice of martial arts in the monasteries of Mount Emei.^[1] made the earliest extant reference to the Shaolin Monastery as Chinese boxing's place of origin.^[2]

A large surrounding area of countryside is geologically known as the Permian Emeishan Large Igneous Province, a large igneous province that erupted during the Permian Period.

Mt. Emei was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

Contents 1 Images of Mount Emei 2 Reference 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Images of Mount Emei

A wooden bridgewalk over the Crystal Stream, western slopes

Macaque indigenous to the region

The Elephant Bathing Pool

[edit] Reference

1. ^ Zhāng Kǒngzhāo 張孔昭 [c. 1784]. Boxing Classic: Essential Boxing Methods 拳經拳法備要 Quánjīng Quánfǎ Bèiyào (in Chinese).
2. ^ Henning, Stanley E. (Fall 1999a). "Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial Arts". China Review International 6 (2): 319–332. ISSN 1069-5834..

[edit] See also

• Sacred Mountains of China

[edit] External links

• Religion and the environment in China, 中国的宗教与环境 - chinadialogue article

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