Eat-Pray-Surf in Putuoshan
Mount Putuo (Putuoshan) is an island in Zhejiang province that derives its name from a sacred Buddhist mountain at the center of the island.
Putuoshan is only 297 meters above sea level and is located 5km east of Zhoushan island in Zhejiang province. The mountain is dedicated to Guanyin, often known in English as the Goddess of Mercy or the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Mount Putuo is one of the four sacred mountains in Chinese Buddhism, the others being Mount Wutai, Mount Jiuhua, and Mount Emei (Bodhimandas for Manjusri, Ksitigarbha, and Samantabhadra, respectively).
Mount Putuo lies on Eastern Sea of China and displays the beauty between sea and mountain. The area is about 12.5 square kilometers and has many famous and sacred temples. Every year on February nineteenth, June nineteenth, September nineteenth of the lunar calendar, it welcomes millions of people for the celebration of the birth of guanyin, being a monk and being bodhisattva.
Around 1612, the 20-year-old future Chan-master Yinyuan Longqi arrived at Mount Putuo while looking for his father, who had disappeared fifteen years earlier. He served tea to the monks. The religious activities can be derived from qin dynasty. During the tang dynasty, along with the development of sea silk road, Putuo Mountain became the center of Han Buddhism for Guanyin.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Putuo