Big Wild Goose Pagoda |
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The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in the Great Ci'en Temple in Jinchangfang (now south of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province) in the Chang'an City of Tang Dynasty. In the third year of Tang Yonghui (652), Xuanzang presided over the construction of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in order to preserve the Buddhist scriptures brought back to Chang'an from the Tianzhu via the Silk Road. After the second change, it was finally fixed to the seven-story tower seen, with a total height of 64.517 meters and a bottom side of 25.5 meters.
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, as the earliest and largest existing quartet-style brick pagoda in the Tang Dynasty, is a typical material evidence that the pagoda, an ancient Indian Buddhist temple, was introduced into the Central Plains with Buddhism and integrated into the Chinese culture. A landmark building that is the crystallization of wisdom.
On March 4, 1961, the State Council announced the Big Wild Goose Pagoda as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. On June 22, 2014, at the 38th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting held in Doha, Qatar, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was a joint application of China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan as the "Silk Road: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor" A site in the “Road Network” was successfully included in the “World Heritage List”.
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