Tianmu Mountain

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The Tianmu Mountain and Tianmu Shan (天目山, Tianmu Shan mountain sky eye ') is a mountain range in northwestern China's Zhejiang province, west of Hangzhou. It runs southwest to northeast, bordering the Central Anhui - level ( Wanzhong Pingyuan ). It consists of an eastern and a western part ( Dongtianmu Shan Shan and Xitianmu ).

One recent study estimates that in West Tianmu Mountains increasingly growing ginkgo may have been introduced there by Buddhist monks. Here tree species grow as Japanese cake tree ( Katsura ), Chinese tulip tree, Yulan magnolia and Japanese Sagopalmfarn ( Cycas revoluta ) The Gold larch can be found there.

The Tianmu Shan was taken in 1996 by the UNESCO list of biosphere reserves. Since 2008, it houses the "Museum of the National Nature Reserve Tianmushan " as an extension of the Natural History Museum Zhejiang. The Tianmushan - site ( Tianmu Shan Yizhi ) of the Shang and Zhou period in Jiangyan (姜堰 市) is since 2006 on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 6-77 ).

Its attractions include the Buddhist Chan yuan Temple (禅 源 寺) from the time of the Ming Dynasty and the Chan (Japanese Zen ) temple Shizikou (狮子 口), the origin of the Linji School ( Linji zong ) - a precursor of the Rinzai school of Buddhism - from the time of the Mongol dynasty.

A song temporal Teeschalentyp with the Japanese name Temmoku ( the Japanese word for the mountains ) was run from there for the ritual tea to Japan.