Rajgir

Mount Jiju

synonym

Lingjiu mountain (lingjiu mountain of India) generally refers to qiqihori mountain

Located in the northeast of wangshe City, the capital of the state of Capricorn in central India, mount jijhari is a famous place for Buddha's saying. Its name comes from its shape. This entry makes a research and Analysis on the geographical location of qijiahori mountain and the recorded literature about it. The sound should be pronounced Q í sh é K ū sh ā n.

geographical position

Located in the northeast of wangshe City, the capital of Capricorn state in central India, it is the famous place of Buddha's saying. The origin of the name of the mountain is that the shape of the mountain top is similar to that of the vulture bird. On the other hand, there are many vulture birds on the mountain top, so it is called it. The Sanskrit GR! Dhra originally means "greedy" and later refers to vulture. This kind of vulture has slightly black wings, gray head and little hair. It likes to eat dead bodies and lives in the forest.

Source record

The mountain peak near the city of Sakyamuni, the king of morgada in central India, is famous for being the place of Buddha. It is also called yishahori mountain, qijaduo mountain, jialiduoluoquzha mountain, jieliduoluojiuyuehu mountain, which means lingjiu mountain and jiutou mountain, or Zhushan mountain, Jiuling mountain and Jiutai mountain. GR! Dhra is a kind of vulture. Its wings are slightly black, its head is gray white, its hair is sparse, and it is greedy for carrion. According to the seventh volume of Xuanying Yinyi, this bird has a spirit. It knows people's life and death. When people want to die, it flies to the other's home. When it is sent to the forest, it flies down to eat, so it is called spirit vulture. Volume 3 of the theory of great wisdom once said two things about this matter. One said that the top of the mountain looked like a vulture, and people in wangshe city saw that it looked like a vulture, so there were rumors about jiutou mountain. Another said that there were dead bodies in the corpse Tuolin in the South of wangshe City, and the vultures often came to eat, and they returned to the top of the mountain immediately after eating, so people named jiutou mountain.

This mountain is the largest of the five mountains in wangshe city. The garden is clean and most Saints live here. The Buddha also lives here, and most of the Mahayana classics are said in this mountain. For example, the wuliangyijing says (Dazheng 9.384a), "this is what I heard. At that time, the Buddha was in the qijiajue mountain in the wangshecheng City, and he was with a crowd of 12000 people in dabichu." However, none of the four ahan's and the southern classics recorded this mountain, and most of them used to describe the garden of solitude and the bamboo garden of galantha.

This mountain is recorded in detail in volume 9 of Xuanzang's records of the western regions of the Tang Dynasty (Dazheng 51.921a)

"To the northeast of the palace city, you can travel fourteen or five miles to mount Jiali Tuoluo. In the sun of Beishan Mountain, there are solitary birds. They live on both the eagle and the high platform. The green and the sky are in contrast, and the colors are different. The Tathagata has lived in this mountain for 50 years, and they often talk about magic methods. From the foot of the mountain to fengcen, he crossed valleys and rocks, and made stone steps, which were more than ten steps wide and five or six li long. In the middle of the road, there are two small roads blocking the waves. One is Xiacheng, that is, the king goes here in vain to advance; the other is Tui fan, that is, Jian Fanfu does not want to go with him. The top of the mountain is long from east to west and narrow from north to south. Facing the cliff, there is a brick house in the West. It is made by Gao Guangqi and has its own households in the East. The Tathagata lived in many places in the past, but now it is called the Tathagata

In addition, the book also lists a number of Buddhist relics near the mountain, such as the place where the Buddha was thrown by the stone, the stone chamber where the Buddha and sariver were heard, and the place where Ananda was disturbed by the demon king.

Textual research on history

British archaeologist A. Cunningham, according to the records of the western regions of the Tang Dynasty and the biography of the eminent monk Faxian, inferred that its location was saila giri in the southeast of Rajgir, Behar. According to recent explorations, there is a gorge stretching to the East between the old and new wangshe cities. In the north of the gorge stands a Xiufeng with an altitude of 1000 feet. In the south of the gorge, there is a rock platform about 224m in the middle, which is called chata giri. The place is the qijari mountain, where the Buddha has spoken many times.

At the same time as the Buddha, the king of bimbisa ^ Ra of the state of Capricorn, who had heard about the Dharma, once carried out the Daxing project. From the mountainside to the top of the mountain, he crossed the valley and rocks, and made stone steps. It was more than ten steps wide and about three kilometers long. On the top of the mountain, there is a platform that Buddha used to say, but so far there is only a red brick wall. In addition, there are many Buddhist monuments, such as the place where the Buddha threw stones at the Buddha, the stone chamber where the Buddha and Sariputra were heard of, the place where Ananda suffered from the enchanting disturbance of the demon king, the Sutra of Buddha preaching, the Sutra of great Prajna, the Sutra of golden Guangming, the Sutra of limitless longevity, etc.

Longitude: 102.87657928467

Latitude: 30.196475982666

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