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Fanjing Mountain Pure, Sacred Land
ByFan Wenjun December 16, 2020
Fanjing Mountain [Tuchong]
Fanjing Mountain is one of China s five famous Buddhist mountains. The name, Fanjing, is an abbreviation of
fantian jingtu, which literally means Brahma s pure land in Chinese. The mountain was added to the World Natural Heritage List in July 2018.
Fanjing Mountain is located where three counties Jiangkou, Yinjiang and Songtao converge in Tongren, in Southwest China s Guizhou Province. It has the highest peak at an elevation of 2,572 meters of the Wuling Mountain Range. The mountain covers more than 700 square kilometers.
In 1986, the mountain was listed as one of the first national natural reserves in China, and it was placed under the protection of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) s Man and Biosphere Program.