Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xian Reviews

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Big Wild Goose Pagoda was first built in 652 in the Tang Dynasty. Xuanzang, a prominent Buddhist scholar of the time, planned to have a huge stone pagoda built to house the Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures he had brought back from India, but the plan fell through because it was difficult to find the needed stone and the cost was prohibitive. He decided instead to build a mud pagoda reinforced with bricks, but the mud pagoda was not strong and the construction was not done properly. The pagoda collapsed not long after it was built. It was rebuilt between 701 and 704 on the order of Empress Wu Ze Tian. Help us to change this descriptionHelp us to improve this description.

 

Travel Reviews on Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xian


Sept 10 2009

Very good.


Jun 19 2009

Nice climb.


Aug 18 2008

Best pagoda we have visited.


Jun 5 2008

ON ARRIVAL,WE WERE TOLD THIS WAS NOT ON THE ITINERARY.WE DEFINITELY ASKED FARTHIS.GARDENS WERE SUPERB


Diane

May 16 2008

helpful with sense of history


Mar 25 2008

interesting


Patrizia

Sept 28 2007

Changed with Musle Street..

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