Putuo

English Putuo District thumb|250px|Putuo District in Shanghai Alternative forms obsolete en P'u-t'uo Etymology The atonal pinyin romanization of the en cmn 普陀 Pǔtuó, a clipped transcription of en sa पोतलक Potalaka Brilliance, the name of the palace of the god or bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (known in China as the goddess or bodhisattva Guanyin) in the influential Avatamsaka Sutra Flower Garland Sutra. The island in Zhejiang has been a center of Buddhist pilgrimage related to the worship of Guanyin since at least the Tang dynasty. Pronunciation en /putwoʊ/ po͞o′tô′Puto Shan or P’u-t’o Shan 1535 3 Puto Shan or P’u-t’o Shan (po͞o′tô′ shän),Also spelled Pootoo and Putu. en Pu tuo Proper noun en island preflcity/Zhoushan p/Zhejiang c/China. en district preflcity/Zhoushan p/Zhejiang c/China. en July 25, 2021 Dominique Patton; Sophie Yu East China braces for typhoon In-fa after flooding in country's centre Christian Schmollinger https://web.archive.org/web/20210726111051/https://www.reuters.com/world/china/east-china-braces-typhoon-in-fa-after-flooding-countrys-centre-2021-07-25/ 25 July 2021 w:Reuters China The typhoon landed in the Putuo district of the city of Zhoushan, a major port in the east coast province of Zhejiang, at 12:30 p.m. (0430 GMT) on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV said, citing the China Meteorological Administration. en district mun/Shanghai c/China. en January 5, 1987 Edward A. Gargan SHANGHAI JOURNAL; ERASING THE SLUMS? THE 64-SQUARE-FOOT QUESTION w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20090706222903/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/05/world/shanghai-journal-erasing-the-slums-the-64-square-foot-question.html July 06, 2009 https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/05/world/shanghai-journal-erasing-the-slums-the-64-square-foot-question.html 0362-4331 1645522 World Satisfied, she poked at scraps of wood glowing in the small stove holding the wok, which stood on a pile of rubble outside her door in the slums of this city's Putuo District.Altogether, about 15,000 people live along with Mrs. Zhi in the Putuo slums, a raged swath of land on the northwestern edges of the city crowded with ramshackle miniature houses that were thrown up helter-skelter in the 1930's and 40's. en April 29, 2022 Huizhong Wu; Chen Si EXPLAINER: How China is using metal barriers to fight COVID https://web.archive.org/web/20220430043736/https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-china-shanghai-taiwan-7e0eaa791011deda9f0caa86123a3878 30 April 2022 w:AP News At one apartment complex in Shanghai’s Putuo district, residents fiercely protested after the residential committee put a U-lock on the door to their building on April 16. Related terms en Potala Translations Island in Zhejiang Province, China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 普陀 Pǔtuó District of Zhoushan, China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 普陀 Pǔtuó District of Shanghai, China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 普陀 Pǔtuó References Further reading Putuo, P'u-t'o en 1998 Putuo Shan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2538 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2538/ 2