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Tiantai Mountain 天台山Tiāntāi Shān
5A scenic area · Taizhou, Zhejiang
About Tiantai Mountain
The forested granite range north of Tiantai town that gave its name to the Tiantai school of Buddhism, a 5A scenic area whose two main parts are Guoqing Temple at its foot (separate card) and the Shiliang area high on the mountain. At Shiliang two streams meet and plunge more than 30 m in three cascades beneath a natural stone beam about 7 m long, with the Middle and Lower Fangguang temples beside it and rock inscriptions from the Song onwards, including one attributed to Mi Fu. Huading, the main peak, has a national forest park, the Huading temple founded in 936, tea gardens and old cloud-brocade azaleas that flower in May.
How to get to Tiantai Mountain
Shiliang is about 15 km north-east of Tiantai town by winding mountain road; Tiantaishan station on the Hangzhou–Taizhou high-speed railway lies on the west side of the town.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Tiantai Mountain Great Waterfall and Qiongtai Valley 天台山大瀑布（琼台仙谷） (10 km), Guoqing Temple 国清寺 (10 km).
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