Gathering medicines among the cypress: the relationship between healing and place in the earliest records of Mount Wutai

Early imaginings of Mount Wutai’s (the Mountain of Five Plateaus) importance were more diverse than we might expect given the site’s longstanding and intimate affiliation with Mañjuśrī (Wenshu). Alongside its importance as the Bodhisattva’s territory, early accounts of this place preserved in H…