Niushou Mountain

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Niushou Mountain is located in Jiangning District of Nanjing. The mountain’s twin peaks look like ox horns, hence the name. 1700 years ago, the first founder of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Emperor Yuandi, wanted to set up two magnificent gate towers to symbolize imperial power. However, Prime Minister, Wang Dao, considered it inappropriate to do so. One day, when they looked afar at the east and west peaks of Niushou Mountain, the Minister suggested that the two peaks were the most suitable heavenly-made gate towers. Hence, it got the name Tianque Mountain.

The beautiful scenery of Niushou Mountain in spring has been widely known. With profound culture, it is the location for battle against Jin Wuzhu led by Yuefei and tomb of Zheng He. With abundant Buddhism culture, Niutou Sect of Chinese Zen Buddhism is cultivated and developed here.

Nanjing Niushou Mountain Cultural Tourism Zone is a recent major cultural project of Nanjing. Based on the philosophy of establishing “new heritage of world Buddhism culture, and new sight of modern architecture art”, with the theme of “long–time enshrining of Buddhist holy relic--Usnisa”, the whole tourist attraction takes full advantage of ecological, cultural and tourism resources to create the wonderful scenery for ecology, culture and leisure.

The core of scenic area construction is as follows: fixing the heavenly peaks, meaning restoring mountain massif and recovering twin peaks; building underground palace, meaning making use of the natural pit to build Usnisa Palace for enshrining Usnisa; renovating the sacred road, meaning expanding original tunnel for exhibiting Sakyamuni’s life story and understanding the way to become Buddha; revealing twin pagodas, meaning constructing Usnisa Pagoda and reproducing the grand pattern of twin pagodas; spreading five levels of Chan(Zen Buddhism) and understanding the atmosphere of Chan in rivers and mountains.

Tel: 400-165-6363

Website: http://eng.niushoushan.net/

Traffic: Take Line 1 Subway, and arrive at RuanjianDadao. Get off, and then take No.154 to East Entrance of Niushou Mountain Station. Next, walk to the east entrance of tourist attraction.

Take line S1(Airport line) subway and arrive at FochengXilu Station. Get off, and then take No. 154 to East Entrance of Niushou Mountain Station. Next, walk to the east entrance of tourist attraction.