观音洞位于辽宁省锦州市西北约七公里处,其山最早被称为老母山,此洞被称为老母洞。传说辽太子耶律倍受其弟耶律德光所害,逃到老母山时身上的箭伤发作,被一位老婆婆所救,而这位老婆婆就是观音菩萨的化身。老婆婆在此山给耶律倍修建一座紫竹院,从此耶律倍避难其中,将老母洞改名为观音洞,老母山改名为普陀山,一直沿袭至今。观音洞素有“辽西第一洞天”的美称,是南海普陀山的下院,观音菩萨显化的道场,始建于辽代,盛世于明清,占地 Guanyin hole is located about seven kilometers northwest of Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, the earliest known as the mother mountain, the hole is known as the mother hole. Legend has it that Liao Prince Edward Yelv was greatly affected by his brother Yeledeguang, who fled to his mother Hill when the injury hit by an old woman, who was the embodiment of Goddess of Mercy. Elderly woman in the mountains to Yelv times to build a Zizhuyuan, from which Yelv times asylum, the old mother hole was renamed the Cave of Guanyin, Mom mountain renamed Putuoshan, has been inherited so far. Avalokitesvara known as “the first cave in western Liaoning ” reputation, is the lower house of Putuo Mountain in the South China Sea, Buddhism Bodhisattva apparent Taoist temple was built in the Liao Dynasty, flourishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, covers an area