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Iron Sutra Pillar, Changde 常德铁幢Chángdé Tiěchuáng
National heritage site · Changde, Hunan
- Time needed
- Under an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Changde
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Iron Sutra Pillar, Changde
A hollow cast-iron Buddhist sutra pillar of the Northern Song, about 4.3 m tall and weighing some 1.5 tonnes, which stood beside Qianming Temple at Deshan until it was moved to Binhu Park in central Changde in 1979. Its 17 sections, fitted together with tenons, are cast with Buddha figures, guardian strongmen, dragons, tigers and lotus patterns, sutra text and the names and posts of the officials and donors who paid for it. The city's heritage office describes it as the only Song-dynasty iron sutra pillar known in China.
How to get to Iron Sutra Pillar, Changde
In Binhu Park in central Changde, a short taxi ride from the city centre; the Changde Poetry Wall on the Yuan River embankment is about 1 km away.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Changde Planning Exhibition Hall 常德市规划展示馆 (under 10 km), Liuye Lake Tourist Resort 柳叶湖 (under 10 km), Kale Planet Theme Park, Changde 常德卡乐星球 (under 10 km), Fenglin Flower Sea, Taoyuan 枫林花海 (20 km).
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