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The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered a Buddhist paradise on earth, and has received visitors ranging from emperors to monastic and lay devotees. Mount Wutai explores how Qing Buddhist rulers and clerics from Inner Asia, including Manchus, Tibetans, and Mongols, reimagined the mountain as their own during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Wen-Shing Chou examines a wealth of original source materials in multiple languages and media--many never before published or translated-such as temple replicas, pilgrimage guides, hagiographic representations, and panoramic maps. She shows how literary, artistic, and architectural depictions of the mountain permanently transformed the site's religious landscape and redefined Inner Asia's relations with China. Chou addresses the pivotal but previously unacknowledged history of artistic and intellectual exchange between the varying religious, linguistic, and cultural traditions of the region. The reimagining of Mount Wutai was a fluid endeavor that proved central to the cosmopolitanism of the Qing Empire, and the mountain range became a unique site of shared diplomacy, trade, and religious devotion between different constituents, as well as a spiritual bridge between China and Tibet.A compelling exploration of the changing meaning and significance of one of the world's great religious sites, Mount Wutai offers an important new framework for understanding Buddhist sacred geography.

Buddhism and culture. --- Cultural landscapes --- Buddhist temples --- Wutai Mountains (China) --- Symbolic representation. --- Amdo. --- Apparitions (TV series). --- Beijing. --- Bhikkhu. --- Bodhisattva. --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist art. --- Buddhist cosmology. --- Buddhist pilgrimage. --- Buddhist symbolism. --- Buddhist temple. --- Buddhist texts. --- Chakravartin. --- Chan Buddhism. --- Chengde. --- Chengdu. --- China proper. --- China. --- Chinese Buddhism. --- Chinese language. --- Chinese literature. --- Cloister. --- Confucianism. --- Cosmography. --- Dalai Lama. --- Deity. --- Dunhuang. --- Ethnological Museum of Berlin. --- Evocation. --- Gazetteer. --- Guanyin. --- Gyatso. --- Hagiography. --- Iconography. --- Illustration. --- Imperial Preceptor. --- Incarnation (Christianity). --- Incarnation. --- Inner Asia. --- Inner Mongolia. --- Jokhang. --- Kangyur. --- Khenpo Sodargye. --- Khenpo. --- Kumbum. --- Larung Gar. --- Lhasa. --- Literature. --- Mahayana. --- Missionary. --- Mogao Caves. --- Monastery. --- Mongols. --- Mount Wutai. --- Mountain range. --- Narrative. --- National Palace Museum. --- Northern Wei. --- Nyingma. --- Pecha. --- Potala Palace. --- Printing. --- Publication. --- Qianlong Emperor. --- Qing dynasty. --- Qingliang Shan. --- Reincarnation. --- Religion. --- Religious identity. --- Religious text. --- Rubin Museum of Art. --- Sacred mountains. --- Sakya. --- Samye. --- Sanskrit. --- Scholasticism. --- Sect. --- Sentient beings (Buddhism). --- Shambhala. --- Shanxi. --- Shrine. --- Sichuan. --- Stele. --- Stupa. --- Sudhana. --- Sutra. --- Tantra. --- Taoism. --- Thangka. --- The Buddhist (TV channel). --- Tibetan Buddhism. --- Tibetan people. --- Transliteration. --- Vajra. --- Veneration. --- Vihara. --- Vimalamitra. --- Vulture Peak. --- Woodblock printing. --- Writing.