Two more religious institutions stand on this river, and both are tied to the water.
Mount Qingcheng rises immediately above the Dujiangyan works and is one of Daoism's principal mountains. Tradition places there the revelation to Zhang Daoling in 142 CE, in which the deified Laozi appointed him Celestial Master, and the movement that followed, the Way of the Celestial Masters, is the beginning of organised Daoism as an institution with priests, registers, parishes and a liturgy rather than a body of philosophical texts. The mountain still carries working temples, and the tradition traces its priestly lineage from that event.
Downstream at Leshan, where the Min meets two other rivers in turbulent water that wrecked boats, a monk named Haitong began in 713 to cut a seated Maitreya out of the cliff face, on the reasoning that the Buddha's presence would calm the confluence. The figure was completed in 803, stands seventy one metres high, and remains the largest stone buddha in the world. The spoil from the carving was tipped into the river below and did in fact alter the currents, so the project may have worked for reasons other than the ones given.
Both sites are on the World Heritage list, and the river that runs between them is still doing the work Li Bing set it.