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White Horse Pagoda at White Horse Temple, Luoyang; Futuci Pagoda in Xuzhou, built in the Three Kingdoms period (c. 220 –265) Many of the pagodas in Stories About Buddhist Temples in Luoyang, a Northern Wei text; The literature of subsequent eras also provides evidence of the domination of wooden pagoda construction.
This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas in the United States for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location. See also: Buddhist Churches of America California
A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism. They include the structures called vihara, chaitya, stupa, wat and pagoda in different regions and languages. Temples in Buddhism represent the pure land or pure environment of a Buddha. Traditional Buddhist temples are designed to inspire ...
' Golden Dagon Pagoda '), and also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda, is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar. The Shwedagon is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, as it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present kalpa .
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in the northern part of Daci’en Temple and is a pavilion-style square brick pagoda composed of a base, body, and top. The total height of the pagoda, including the base, is 64.1 meters. The pagoda’s base is approximately 4.2 meters high, with a north-south width of about 48.8 meters.
The temple's pagoda was built on the site of a previous pagoda of Yong'an temple in the Liao Dynasty (916–1125), The temple was built in 1279 under the orders of Emperor Kublai Khan and was originally named " Dashengshou Wan'an Temple ". The White Pagoda built in the Yuan Dynasty is the oldest and largest Tibetan Buddhist pagoda in China.
The model and namesake of the pagoda was the 11th century Vinh Nghiem Buddhist temple in Đức La Village, Trí Yên Commune, Yên Dũng District, Bắc Giang Province, which dates the reign of Lý Thái Tổ during the Lý dynasty. The village was once a major center of Buddhist teaching and the Trúc Lâm sect of Vietnamese Buddhism.
The gorintō (五輪塔, lit. five ring tower) is a pagoda found almost only in Japan and believed to have been first adopted by the Shingon and Tendai sects during the mid Heian period. [11] It is used as a tomb marker or as a cenotaph, and is therefore a common sight in Buddhist temples and cemeteries.