The Wild Goose Pagoda is located in Daxiongji, Jinchang Square, Chang 'an in Tang Dynasty, also known as "Ci 'en Temple Pagoda". In the third year of Tang Yonghui (652), Xuanzang presided over the construction of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to preserve the scroll Buddha statues brought back to Chang 'an by Tianzhu via the Silk Road. There were five floors at first, then nine floors were built, and then the floors and heights were changed several times. Finally, it was fixed as a seven-story pagoda with a total height of 64.517m and a bottom length of 25.5m..
The Wild Goose Pagoda, as the earliest and largest quadrangle-style brick pagoda in the Tang Dynasty, is a typical material evidence of the introduction of ancient Indian Buddhist temples into the Central Plains with Buddhism and its integration into China culture, and it is a landmark building that embodies the wisdom of working people in ancient China.
Tower seat of Big Wild Goose Pagoda
There is a stone gate at the bottom of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and there are exquisite line carved Buddha statues and brick carved couplets on the lintels and doorframes. Stone tablets are embedded on both sides of the south gate cave on the ground floor, and the west niche is written from right to left. Li Shimin, the great calligrapher of the Secretariat of History at that time, wrote the Preface to Tang Sanzang's teachings in his own handwriting, and the East Shrine wrote it from left to right. Written by Li Zhi and Tang Gaozong and written by Chu Suiliang, The Preface to Tang Sanzang's teachings is called "Two Saints and Three Wonders Monument".
The specifications of the two monuments are the same. The head of the monument is round, and the lines on both sides of the monument body are obviously divided, showing a trapezoidal shape with narrow upper part and wide lower part (this is a typical Tang monument shape). The stele seat is a square stele seat, engraved with connecting lines. The height of the two monuments is 337.5 cm, the width of the monument surface is 86 cm and the width of the lower part is 100 cm. The inscription highly praised Master Xuanzang for learning from the Western Heaven and carrying forward the historical achievements and extraordinary spirit of Buddhism, and was known as the "Wild Goose Pagoda Holy Religion".
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