Lúshān

Mount Lu, anciently called Kuanglu, rises above the Yangtze river and Poyang lake near Jiujiang in Jiangxi. Between 386 and 402 the monk Huiyuan built Donglin Temple on its slopes and taught the chanting of Amitabha's name, founding the Pure Land school of Chinese Buddhism.

Daoist temples were added under the Tang, and in 940 the White Deer Grotto Academy was founded at the mountain's foot; the Song scholar Zhu Xi rebuilt it into a celebrated Confucian academy. Tao Yuanming lived and was buried nearby, and Su Shi wrote that no one could see Lushan's true shape while standing inside it. Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian shrines continued to share its peaks and grottoes through the Qing.