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Mount Putuo
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English
Etymology
en cmn 普陀山.
Pronunciation
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
Mount Putuo
en island district/Putuo prefecture-level city/Zhoushan p/Zhejiang c/China.
en October 16, 1984 Christopher S. Wren TO BE LEFT ALONE, CHINA'S BUDDISTS OPEN A DOOR w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150524154120/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/16/world/to-be-left-alone-china-s-buddists-open-a-door.html 24 May 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/16/world/to-be-left-alone-china-s-buddists-open-a-door.html 0362-4331 1645522 World Mount Wutai is really a cluster of five huge summits ranging in altitude up to 10,000 feet that is breached only by a few dirt roads twisting over the windswept passes of northern Shanxi. It is the most revered of the four mountains sacred to Chinese Buddhists, more than Mount Emei in Sichuan, Mount Putuo in Zhejiang or Mount Jihua in Anhui.
en 12 November 2024 Emily Hung Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines launches new route to Zhoushan, site of sacred Mount Putuo w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20250208161008/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3286102/hong-kongs-greater-bay-airlines-launches-new-route-zhoushan-site-sacred-mount-putuo https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3286102/hong-kongs-greater-bay-airlines-launches-new-route-zhoushan-site-sacred-mount-putuo February 08, 2025 1563-9371 648902513 Hong Kong economy Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines has launched flights to Zhoushan, a mainland Chinese city known for its Buddhist pilgrimage site of Mount Putuo, adding a new route that will soon be followed by three others, even as it recently cut a flight to Haikou that began in late July.
Synonyms
en Pootoo
Hypernyms
en island, en mountain
Holonyms
en Zhoushan
Translations
island
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 普陀山 Pǔtuó Shān
Japanese: ja
References
en Buddhism Mountains