Jìng'ān

Jing’an lies among the hills and streams of northwestern Jiangxi, south of the Jiuling Mountains. The area was made a county in the tenth century after a town had been established there in the troubled late Tang. North of the county seat stands Baofeng Monastery, associated with the Chan master Mazu Daoyi, whose relics were kept on the mountain. The monastery became an important centre in the history of Chinese Buddhism.