Mount Adam (other)
Mount Adam may refer to: * Mount Adam, Sri Lanka * Mount Adam (Antarctica) * Mount Adam (British Columbia) * Mount Adam, Falkland Islands See also *Mount Adams (other) Mount Adams most often refers to: * Mount Adams (Washington) (3,743 m), a volcano in the Cascades and second highest mountain in the Washington state Other mountains * Mount Adams (New Hampshire) (1,760 m) in the White Mountains near Mount Washingt ...

Mount Adam, Sri Lanka
Adam's Peak is a conical Sacred mountains, sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka.Capper, Daniel (2022), ''Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World,'' Cornell University Press. It is well known for the ''Sri Pada'' (; ), a rock formation near the summit whose name is also Pars pro toto, used for the mountain itself. In Buddhism, Buddhist tradition the print is held to be the footprint of the Buddha, in Sri Lankan Hinduism, Hindu tradition that of Hanuman or Shiva (its Tamil name, , ''Sivanolipaathamalai'', means 'Mountain of Shiva's Light'), and in some Islamic and Christianity, Christian traditions that of Adam or St Thomas the Apostle. The mountain is also known as Mount Malaya in Buddhist sources, particularly the Mahayana Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, ''Lankavatara Sutra'', which states that the Buddha preached this ''sutra'' on top of the mountain. According to this ''sutra'', the mountain was the abode of Ravana, overlord of the Rakshasas and ruler of ...
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