Putuo

Meaning

Proper Noun

• island city, Zhoushan Zhejiang (province) China (country).
• district city, Zhoushan Zhejiang (province) China (country).
• district city, Shanghai China (country).

Origin

• The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 普陀, a clipped transcription of Sanskrit पोतलक, the name of the palace of the god or bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (known in China as the goddess or bodhisattva Guanyin) in the influential Flower Garland Sutra. The island in Zhejiang has been a center of Buddhist pilgrimage related to the worship of Guanyin since at least the Tang dynasty.