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Of the four wonders of Mt emei, Buddha’s Halo is reputed as “wonder of the wonders”, which is often described as “The halo rings move with the viewer and the viewer is kept in the glorious rings”. Visitors to the Golden Summit all wish to have the fortune of seeing the halo appear over the rolling cloud sea down below Self Sacrifice Cliff. This miraculous spectacle is found in the morning atop the west peak after a pouring shower, when the mountain is washed clean in fresh green and the faint mist rises up quietly, and then there gently fades in the circular halo of colorful tints beyond human description.
Cloud Sea:
To the east from Ten Thousand Buddha Peak, there is the expanse of cloud sea, boundless and rolling, now and then submerging or showing the peak tops like the legendary fairy isles of the high sea. This is the Cloud Sea, one of the four wonders at golden Summit of Mt Emei.
Sunrise:
Though pitch dark just before dawn, it soon emits streaks of rosy shoots out of the horizon in the east. Then a piece of purple red ascends, brighter and brighter, before it finally bobs up in full and hues up the whole sky into a rosy cover and brings the entire Mt Emei into a golden world of infinite vigor.
Holy Lamps:
This is another wonder usually found in dark evenings, when the moon and stars are blocked behind the clouds. In the dark background of the evening, dozens of greenish blue lights twinkle and disappear, at one moment as if rushing in but next moment they are nowhere to find. This amazing scene is called “Holy Lamps” or “Divine Lights”. Though Buddhists would hold that they are lamps of the Buddha, they are, scientifically speaking ,the pale greenish light from the self burning of the gas of apatite abundant in Mt Emei.