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Grotto-heavens (Chinese:洞天; Pinyin: Dongtian) are a type of sacred Daoist site. Grotto-heavens are usually caves, mountain hollows, or other underground spaces. Because every community was supposed to have access to at least one grotto, there were many of them all over China . They were first organized systematically in the Tang Dynasty by Sima Chengzhen and Du Guangting. Kohn (2000), p. 695. The most sacred of these sites were divided into two types: The ten greater grotto-heavens and the thirty-six lesser grotto-heavens.Kohn (2000), p. 696. The ten greater grotto-heavens are as follows:
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