| Wooden Pagoda in Yingxian County
The real name of the Wooden Pagoda in Yingxian County, located in the Fogong (Buddha's Palace) Temple in the northwestern corner of Yingxian County, is the Sakyamuni Pagoda.
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| Wide Goose Tower
Zunyi is endowed with attractive scenery of verdant mountains and elegant waters. In January 1935, a group of political and military leaders, who were dressed in gray army uniforms and octagonal service cap, held a significant meeting here to turn around the future of the Chinese people and the Chinese revolution, which made Zunyi world-famous, and became a holy site for tens of millions of Chinese people and a sacred spotlight nationwide.
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| Three Pagodas of Dali
The world-renown Three Pagodas of Dali arises on Cangshan Mountain slope, overlooking Erhai Lake within Dali of Yunnan Province.
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| Small Wild Goose Pagoda
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda is located about 1 kilometers south of Jianfu Temple in Xi'an City of Shaanxi Province. Along with the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, it was an important landmark in Chang'an, capital of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Since it was smaller and built later than the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, it was named the Small Wild Goose Pagoda.
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| Pagoda of Six Harmonies
Standing by the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, the Pagoda of Six Harmonies was first constructed in 970 during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) by Qian Hongchu, King of the Wuyue State, who ruled the area of today's Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.
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| Pagoda Forest at Shaolin Temple
The Pagoda Forest at Shaolin Temple stands at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain about half a kilometer west of Shaolin Temple in Henan Province. It is a concentration of tomb pagodas for eminent monks and abbots of the temple. A rough count shows more than 240 tomb pagodas of various sizes from the Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties (618-1911), making it the biggest pagoda forest in China.
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| Manfeilong Pagoda
The Manfeilong Pagoda is located on top of the mountain in Manfeilong Village in Jinhong County of Yunnan Province. The pagoda is a famous stupa group in Xishuanbanna. The white stupa looks like a white bottle gourd while the minarets look like bamboo shoots, hence the name "Bamboo Shoot Tower". Due to the white stupa, some people also called it the White Pagoda.
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| Iron Pagoda
Located in the Iron Pagoda Park in the northeast part of the Kaifeng City, the Iron Pagoda is called as the First Pagoda under Heaven by people for its exquisite architectural design and magnificent structure.
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| Haibao Pagoda in Yinchuan
Located about 1.5 kilometers northwest of downtown Yinchuan in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the Haibao Pagoda Temple is one of the major Buddhist temples opened to public in China. And, the pagoda in the temple is the most ancient Buddhist architecture in Ningxia, and is among the first group of national key cultural relics sites.
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| Five-Pagoda Temple
The Five-Pagoda Temple is situated at Xizhimen Wai in Haidian District of Beijing. Its original name was the Temple of True Awakening (Zhen Jue Temple), which changed to the Temple of Great Righteous Awakening (Da Zhengjue Temple) after renovation in 1761. Today, however, it is popularly referred to as the Five-Pagoda Temple because there are five pagodas in the temple.
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