Taizang Pagoda

The site of the Taizang Pagoda ( Chinese  台藏塔遗址 , Pinyin Táizàng tǎ yízhǐ , English Taizang Pagoda ) is located in the municipality Sanpu of the district Gaochang , Xinjiang , China. A large Buddhist temple was located there from the 6th to 7th centuries, of which only the ruins of the pagoda remain today. It is a pagoda of the "box-shaped pagoda" type for the storage of Buddhist scriptures (English. Box-shaped pagodas for keeping Buddhist scriptures ).

Since 2001 it has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China in Xinjiang (5-144).

literature

• Luo Zhenwen: Ancient Pagodas in China. Beijing: Foreign Languages ​​Press 1994; ISBN 7-119-01702-0

Web links

• Taizang Pagoda in Turpan of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
• Box-shaped pagodas for keeping Buddhist scriptures

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://www.china.org.cn/english/TR-e/42865.htm Box-shaped pagodas for keeping Buddhist scriptures

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