Mount Omei

English Proper noun mount Omei en Mount Emei. en 1913 Elizabeth Kendall Omei Shan, the Sacred A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia https://archive.org/details/wayfarer-in-china_2022 New York The Century Co. 189 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AA_Wayfarer_in_China.djvu/245 According to the legend, at the very beginning of Buddhist influence in China, P'u-hsien Bodhisattva revealed himself to a wandering official in that wonderful thing known as "Buddha's Glory," and from this time on, Mount Omei became the centre from which the light of Buddhist teaching was spread abroad over the entire country. en 1917 E. I. Hart The Chinese Tartarus Virgil C. Hart: Missionary, Statesman, Founder of the American and Canadian Missions in Central and West China https://archive.org/details/questforrose0000phil_h6f0/ New York w:Hodder & Stoughton; w:George H. Doran Company 5912925 163 https://archive.org/details/MN41608ucmf_1/page/n193/ WHERE the Upper Yangtse widens, and the perilous rapids are past, and the mountains begin to recede from the shore, is situated one of China's most interesting cities—the City of Fungteu, a place of great historical romance. The picturesque little mount just outside the city walls is literally covered with large and venerable temples, and next to Mount Omei in central Szechwan, is perhaps the greatest religious retreat in the land. en 1982 Dryden Linsley Phelps Foreword Pilgrimage in Poetry to Mount Omei https://archive.org/details/pilgrimageinpoet0000phel/ Hong Kong Cosmos Books Ltd. 851482346 V https://archive.org/details/pilgrimageinpoet0000phel/page/n14/ Mount Omei has for centuries been one of nine Chinese Buddhist shrines. It rises in majesty not far from the Sichuan -Tibetan boundary.From its summit on a clear day, the snowy Himalayas may be seen in the distance. en