Yanshan Gazetteer (鴈山志)

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Ming · by 朱諫撰　胡汝寧重編

54,659 · about 182 min

The Yanshan Gazetteer is a classic Buddhist mountain gazetteer compiled by the Ming dynasty scholar Zhu Jian and later revised by Hu Runing. Completed in the mid-to-late Ming period, a time when Chinese Buddhism was deeply integrating with traditional culture and the compilation of local gazetteers flourished, this work systematically documents the natural landscapes, cultural relics, and Buddhist development of Mount Yandang. It focuses on recording the historical evolution of monasteries, biographies of eminent monks, and Buddhist poetry and prose, blending the characteristics of geographical records with Buddhist history. As the first systematic gazetteer of Mount Yandang, it is not only an important document in Chinese Buddhist geographical literature, providing precious historical materials for the study of the spread of Buddhism in southeastern China and the Buddhist culture of sacred mountains, but also reflects the fusion of Buddhism with Chinese landscape culture, holding an academically transitional role in the tradition of Buddhist mountain gazetteers.