Tiantai Mountain (also Tí Taî in the local language) is a mountain in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Its highest peak, Huading, reaches a height of .
It was designated a scenic area in 1985, with an area of 105 km2.UNEP-WCMC (2023). Protected Area Profile for Tian Tai Shan from the World Database on Protected Areas. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
One of nine remaining wild populations of Seven-Son Flower (Heptacodium miconioides) is located on mount Tiantai.
Legends In the mythology of Traditional Chinese religion, the creator goddess Nüwa cut the legs off a giant sea turtle () and used them to prop up the sky after Gong Gong damaged Mount Buzhou, which had previously supported the heavens.
Guoqing Temple Guoqing Temple on the mountain is the headquarters of Tiantai Buddhism, and also a tourist destination. Tiantai, named for the mountain, is an East Asian Buddhist school of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed in 6th-century China and focuses on the Lotus Sutra. The most prominent teacher of that school, Zhiyi, was based at Guoqing Temple.
Ji Gong Temple The mountain has a temple to the Song-era Chinese Buddhist monk Ji Gong at the Cave of Auspicious Mists that was associated with early modern fuji or "spirit writing" movements.
Transport Tiantaishan railway station
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