Qīngyáng

Qingyang lies in the hills south of the Yangtze, near the sacred peaks of Jiuhua Mountain. The mountain became a centre of devotion to the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha. Among its most revered figures was a monk of the Silla royal family, known as Jin Dizang, who came across the sea and lived on the mountain in the Tang period.

By the Ming, accounts identified him as Jin Qiaojue and associated him ever more closely with the bodhisattva. The Qingyang magistrate Su Wanmin included his story in a gazetteer of Jiuhua published in 1579. Temples flourished among the peaks, and pilgrims climbed the mountain to worship at its shrines, making Jiuhua one of China's great Buddhist mountains.