Wu Tai Shan was named the best spiritual place for worship since not later than Northern Dynasties due to its natural environment. In Northern Dynasties, Wu Tai Shan had become an regional religion centre. Many monks visited it to worship; most of them worshiped dhūta, it showed that worship was popular in the period. However, there were not only Buddhism but also celestial legend existing in Wu Tai Shan at the time, it reveals that the phenomenon that both Buddhism and celestial brief existed and developed are also found in Wu Tai Shan. Although Wu Tai Shan was compared with so called Mañju?rī’s Sacred Sites, which was mentioned in Avatamsaka Sutra, it developed its Buddhism uniquely without being influenced by Manjusri’s Sacred Sites at the time. Wu Tai Shan was noticed and supported by authority due to the religious policies at the beginning of Tang Dynasty. With the trend of the development, Wu Tai Shan was associated with the Mañju?rī’s Sacred Sites named in avatamsaka sutra; this also became a link of facilitating the brief of avatamsaka sutra. By the support of Wu Zetian, the association between Wu Tai Shan and Mañju?rī’s Sacred Sites was admitted and supported by the Emperor. Hence, the development of Wu Tai Shan started to be associated with a statement, which Wu Tai Shan was the Sacred Sites of Bodhisattva Manjusri in the world of mortals. Nevertheless, it can be clearly seen that Wu Tai Shan was in the initial stage of flourish from the activities of temples and monks in Wu Tai Shan. Both the scale of temples and activities of monks illustrate that the development of Wu Tai Shan was not particularly flourishing in the period between the surrender of Northern Dynasties and raised attention of Wu Zetian. At that time, it simply concentrated on cooperating with aranya and Cave Temp, which were established to worship dhūta. During the dynasties of the T''ang Emperors Hsuean-tsug and Tai- tsug, d
