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					<td align="left" valign="top"><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the 1870s, Hui Gen, a Buddhist master from Pu Tuo Mountain in Zhejiang Province decided to make a pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountains of China.  There are four mountains considered sacred to the Buddhist: Pu Tuo Shan, Jiu Hua Shan, Wu Tai, and E Mei Shan.  </FONT>
							<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pu Tuo Mountain in Zhejiang was Hui Gen's home monastery. It is dedicated to the Bodhisattva Guan-Yin. Presumably he had already been to Jiu Hua Shan in Anhui, dedicated to Bodhisattva Kshitigarbha because he set off to visit Wu Tai and E Mei. Wu Tai Shan, dedicated to Bodhisattva Manjushri is in Shanxi Province. Then he made his way to Sichuan Province and E Mei Shan, dedicated to Bodhisattva Samantabhadra. From Sichuan he traveled into the Himalayas to Tibet, the main source of Chinese Buddhism. </font></p>
							<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">From there he made his way to India, probably passing through Nepal. In each place he visited monasteries and famous Buddha shrines. Finally he ended up in Burma, today's Myanmar. </font></p>
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