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Statue of Xuanzang in front of Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. Giant Wild Goose Pagoda or Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Chinese: 大雁塔; pinyin: Dàyàn tǎ, lit. ' big swan goose pagoda '), is a monumental Buddhist pagoda located in southern Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It was built in c. 652 during the Tang dynasty and originally had five stories.
The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, also called the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Great Wild Goose Pagoda and Dayan Pagoda. Was built by Xuanzang in 652. The 63.25-metre (207.5 ft) pagoda has the brick structure with seven stories and four sides of ancient Indian style. It has been renovated and redecorated several times since the Tang dynasty (618–907).
The other notable pagoda is the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, originally built in 652 and restored in 704. This pagoda, along with the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda and other sites along the Silk Road, was inscribed in 2014 on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor World Heritage Site. [1]
The Daqin Pagoda, a Buddhist pagoda in Zhouzhi County of Xi'an, has been suggested to have originally been a Nestorian Christian church from the Tang dynasty. [ 112 ] Baptist missionaries from England ran a hospital in Xi'an. [ 113 ] In 1892, Arthur Gostick Shorrock [ 114 ] and Moir Duncan [ 115 ] founded the Sianfu Mission , in present-day Xi ...
The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, built in 652 AD, located in the southeast sector of Chang'an. During Tang, the main exterior walls of Chang'an rose 18 ft (5.5 m) high, were 5 mi (8.0 km) by six miles in length, and formed a city in a rectangular shape, with an inner surface area of 30 sq mi (78 km 2 ). [ 11 ]
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda square, is a symbol of Yanta District and Xi'an Coordinates: 34°12′38″N 108°55′58″E / 34.2106°N 108.9327°E / 34.2106; 108.9327 Country
The Tang West Market Museum, in Xi'an. The Tang West Market Museum (大唐西市博物館) is a museum in the city of Xi'an, Shanxi, China. It houses many artifacts from the Tang dynasty period and the Silk Road. Part of the base of the tomb as well as the epitaph Tomb of An Bei, a Sogdian merchant and official in China in the 6th century CE ...
Xingqinggong Park was built in 1958 on the former site of Xinqing Palace (see below), when Xi'an Jiaotong University was established directly in its south. The park's main entrance faces Xi'an Jiaotong University. The park has 150 acres of Xingqing Lake and the Chenxiang Pavilion, which is built in the Tang Dynasty architecture.