Editing Mount Putuo (section)

== History ==
Mount Putuo has been a pilgrimage site for over a thousand years.<ref>{{cite web |title=THE COMPLETE MAP OF THE IMPERIALLY ESTABLISHED SOUTH SEA MOUNT PUTUO AREA |url=https://pilgrimage.asiasociety.org/artifacts/the-complete-map-imperially-established-south-sea-mount-putuo-area |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127031823/https://pilgrimage.asiasociety.org/artifacts/the-complete-map-imperially-established-south-sea-mount-putuo-area |archive-date=2022-11-27 |website=pilgrimage.asiasociety.org |publisher=[[Asia Society]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Puto (Pooto, Pouto, or Poo-teon-shan) |url=https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/P/puto-(pooto-pouto-or-poo-teon-shan).html |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Online |publisher=StudyLamp Software |language=en}}</ref> After the [[Tang dynasty]], Mount Putuo became a center of Guanyin worship.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/island-of-guanyin-9780190456191?cc=th&lang=en&|title= M.Bingenheimer: Island of Guanyin|date= 5 May 2016|publisher=[[OUP]]|isbn= 978-0-19-045619-1}}</ref> Traditionally there were three main temples: the [[Puji Temple]] ({{zh|t=普濟寺|labels=no}}, founded in 10th century), the [[Fayu Temple]] ({{zh|t=法雨寺|labels=no}}, founded 1580 CE), and the [[Huiji Temple (Mount Putuo)|Huiji Temple]] ({{zh|t=慧濟寺|labels=no}}, founded 1793 CE). The site has received numerous renowned visitors over the ages, including the then 20-year-old future Chan master Yinyuan Longqi (Japanese: [[Ingen]]), who came to the site in 1612, while looking for his father, who had disappeared fifteen years earlier.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}

[[Taixu]] spent several years in solitary retreat at a small hermitage on Putuo.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}