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Greater Wild Goose Pagoda
    
SIGHT & ATTRACTIONS
Sights in Xi’an
BELL TOWER
DRUM TOWER
ANCIENT CITY WALL OF XI’AN
THE BANPO MUSEUM
GREATER WILD GOOSE PAGODA
THE GREAT MOSQUE AT HUAJUE LANE
MUSEUM OF SHAANXI HISTORY
MUSEUM OF FOREST OF STONE TABLETS IN XI’AN
LESSER WILD GOOSE PAGODA

--GREATER WILD GOOSE PAGODA--		 About four kilometres south of Xi’an, the Greater Wild Goose Pagoda stands within the compound of the Ci’en Monastery, which was built in 648 by Emperor Gaozong (third emperor of the Tang Dynasty). The eminent Tang Buddhist master Xuan Zang brought back from his travels in India on the Silk Road 657 volumes of Buddhist scriptures and spent 11 years in the temple
researching and translating them into 1335 Chinese volumes. Master Xuan Zang personally designed the Pagoda and suggested to the emperor that it be built to house the Buddhist scriptures and it was constructed in 652. Originally the pagoda had only five stories, a further two stories were added during late reconstruction. It’s wood and brick structure, 64 meters high in the shape of a square cone, and inside there are staircases leading to the top giving a birdsight view of the countryside and city.
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