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Taizang Pagoda Ruins 台藏塔遗址Táizàng Tǎ Yízhǐ
National heritage site · Turpan, Xinjiang
- Time needed
- Under an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Turpan
- Region
- Xinjiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Taizang Pagoda Ruins
Taizang Pagoda is the ruin of a large Buddhist temple-stupa from the Tang and Uyghur Qocho periods, a square mud-brick and rammed-earth mass that still rises in stepped tiers lined with niches, some with traces of paint. It stands on the plain below the Flaming Mountains a short distance from the Gaochang ruins and the Astana cemetery. The ruin was consolidated in 2009–2010 and fenced, with a gate and a small management building.
How to get to Taizang Pagoda Ruins
In Sanbao township near the Gaochang ruins and the Astana Cemetery, about 35 km east of central Turpan by road.
Nearby
- Turpan & Jiaohe Ruins 吐鲁番交河故城 40 km
A 2,000-year-old city carved out of a river island, in China's hottest basin
Also within 20 km: Astana Cemetery 阿斯塔那古墓群 (under 10 km), Gaochang Ruins 高昌故城 (under 10 km), Flaming Mountains 火焰山 (under 10 km), Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves 柏孜克里克千佛洞 (under 10 km), Boxiha Caves 伯西哈石窟 (10 km), Tuyoq Valley 吐峪沟 (10 km).
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