Puxian is one of nemurous Bodhisattvas (pusa)in India Buddhism. When did Buddhism come to Mt.Emei?
It is said that an old man called Pu(蒲）hiked Mt.Emei to collect medicinal herbs. On the ground he saw a trial of a sikadder's footprints, resembling lotus flowers. Curious, Pu followed the track all the way up to the top of the mountain where the trail of footprints disappeared unexpectedly, and were replaced by shining golden rays and in a swirl of purple air around the mountaintop. The myriad rays and colors inter_twined miraculously to form a huge braided ring of light. This phenomenon astounded the od man who later searched out an eminent monk on Mt.Emei and questioned him.This monk was over a thousand years old and had come from the Western Regions.
