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Book/Printed Material Tiantai Shan ji 天台山記

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Title

  • Tiantai Shan ji

Other Title

  • 天台山記

Translated Title

  • Geographical Description of Tiantai Mountain

Summary

  • Tendaisan ki (Tiantaishanji in Chinese) is a geographical description of the Chinese holy mountain, Tendaisan (Tiantaishan in Chinese), located in Zheijiang Province. The author, Xu Lingfu, was a Taoist who lived in seclusion in order to discipline his mind and body. Xu lived on Tendaisan from 815 to 825, where he wrote this book. A Japanese monk studying in China may have copied the original in China or he may have brought a copy back to Japan, after which it was lost. This manuscript, held in the National Diet Library, is the only copy of this book and the only remaining geographical description from the Tang dynasty. The writer of the manuscript is unidentified. At the upper right of the title someone has added "Written by Annen." Annen (circa 841-circa 915) was a great scholar of the Tendai sect of Buddhism in Japan. There is no evidence, however, that he made this copy. After the text of Tendaisan ki, that of Busso tōki taikan den (Fozu tongji diguan zhuan in Chinese) by Zhipan has been added in another hand. When the scholar Li Shuchang reprinted 26 Chinese rare books that are known to survive only in Japan (as the Guyi congshu series in the tenth year of the Guangxu period of the Qing dynasty, 1884), he included this book as one of the texts.

Names

  • Xu, Lingfu, active 9th century Author
  • Zhipan, Shi, active 13th century Contributor

Created / Published

  • [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [1000 to 1199]

Headings

  • -  China--Zhejiang Province
  • -  800 to 899
  • -  Buddhism
  • -  Mountains
  • -  Taoism

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 book ; 25.5 x 15.5 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Diet Library.
  • -  Content in Chinese.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
  • -  Title revised per Asian Division.--cc28 2023-01-06

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Chinese Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Prints

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667440

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Xu, Lingfu, Active 9Th Century Author, and Shi Zhipan. Tiantai Shan ji. [Place of publication not identified: Publisher not identified, to 1199, 1000] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667440/.

APA citation style:

Xu, L. & Zhipan, S. (1000) Tiantai Shan ji. [Place of publication not identified: Publisher not identified, to 1199] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667440/.

MLA citation style:

Xu, Lingfu, Active 9Th Century Author, and Shi Zhipan. Tiantai Shan ji. [Place of publication not identified: Publisher not identified, to 1199, 1000] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667440/>.