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Mount Putuo () is an island southeast of Shanghai, in Zhoushan prefecture of Zhejiang province, China.
It is famous in Chinese Buddhism, and is considered the bodhimanda of Avalokitesvara ( Guan Yin ), a revered Bodhisattva in many parts of East Asia.
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 ).
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.
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