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Mount Emei Wikipedia

bgcolor=#e7dcc3 colspan=2|Mount Emei
bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Elevation:	3,099 metres (10,167 Foot (unit of length)|ft)
bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Latitude:	29° 32′ N
bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Longitude:	103° 21′ E
bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Location:	Sichuan, China
bgcolor=#e7dcc3|First ascent:	???
bgcolor=#e7dcc3|Easiest mountaineering|route:	???

Mount Emei (峨嵋山, pinyin Éméi Shān, Wade-Giles O²-mei² Shan¹, literally Delicate Eyebrow Mountain) is a mountain in Sichuan province of Western China.

Mt. Emei is one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains of China, shared between Taoism and Chinese Buddhism. The patron Bodhisattva of Emei is Samantabhadra, known in Mandarin (linguistics)|Chinese as Puxian. Some of the Buddhist and Taoist monasteries associated with the mountain were also known for the training of traditional Chinese martial arts.

Emei was made a World Heritage Site in 1996.

Last Modified:   2005-04-13