A visit to the Abbot Pao Tsing of the T'ien T'ai sect in the Kuantsungchiang monastery in Ningpo was therefore of special importance for the research work besides the local investigations and the evening talks with the monks at Pootoo.
From the viewpoint of philosophic cal conception and true doctrine of wisdom of the meditation school as well as of the Tien Tai sect, the following points can be considered as important for understanding the cult of the Madonna of the higher priests as a result of the investigations made.
The point of view of subjective idealism: From this point of view the name of the Madonna is Kuan Tze Tsai Pu-so. This means "the Holy Mountain Island The name of the Island of Pootoo which together with tite neighbouring island Loka at low tide they are one unity—is called the holy Mountain Island Potalaka, is taken from a mountain in Southern India having ihe same name, upon which Avalokitesvara's (Kuan Yin) first incarnation took place, The Palace Mountain of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa has also the same name since he also is considered to be an incarnation of the same sublime being. The whole island "surfed" by the seas, forms a mythological world in itself.
The strange shape of the rocks which resemble petrified incarnations of saints (Patriarch Bodhidharma) and like fabulous animals (two giant turtles), the nomenclature of the mountains (for instance Luang Shan, Incense Mountain, following the text of the legend) and of the monasteries indeed are guiding the human mind in such a way that the words "Enter the Contemplation" being engraved on stone or written and painted on the walls, become reality.
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