Are Zhoushan and Putuo Mountain the same place?

No, Putuo Mountain is located in Putuo District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province. Zhoushan is made up of many islands, and Putuo Mountain is just one of them. Putuo Mountain is a small island in Zhoushan Archipelago 1390 islands. It looks like a black dragon lying in the sea, with an area of 12.52 square kilometers. Across the sea from shenjiamen in Zhoushan Archipelago, it is known as the "Buddha Country at Sea" and "Holy Land of the South China Sea". It is 8.6 kilometers long from north to south, 3.5 kilometers wide from east to west, and the coastline is 30 kilometers long.

According to Buddhist legend, an Indian monk came here in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, witnessed the appearance of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and got seven-color gems, so it was called the Holy Land of Mr. Guanyin. There is a saying in Buddhist scriptures that Guanyin lives in Luojiashan, Putuo, South India, because it is called an island. In the fourth year of Tang Xiantong (863), monk Hua Hui invited Guanyin statue to return home by boat from Wutai Mountain. When the ship sailed to Lianhuayang, it was difficult to do it several times. Therefore, he thought that Guanyin refused to cross eastward, leaving an icon beside the cave in Yin Chao, so he was called "unwilling to go to Guanyin" (now called "unwilling to go to Guanyin Academy"). After several generations of construction, there are many temples. In its heyday, there were 4 temples in the whole mountain, including temple 106 and Mao Peng 139, with more than 4,654 monks, which was called "the first Buddhist country in Sinian" in history.