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Kaiming Temple Pagoda 开明寺塔Kāimíng Sì Tǎ
National heritage site · Hanzhong, Shaanxi
- Time needed
- Under an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hanzhong
- Region
- Shaanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Kaiming Temple Pagoda
A 13-storey brick pagoda about 27 m tall in Yang County town, built in the Tang dynasty in the early 8th century and repaired under the Southern Song, and regarded as the oldest brick pagoda in southern Shaanxi. Each face of every storey has a Buddha niche flanked by two small carved pagodas, 52 niches and 104 pagodas in all, and bells hang from the corners.
How to get to Kaiming Temple Pagoda
In Yang County town, which has high-speed trains from Xi'an in about an hour and is about 50 km east of Hanzhong.
Nearby
- Hanzhong Rapeseed Fields 汉中油菜花 50 km
Spring rapeseed turning the Han River basin gold beneath the Qinling foothills
Also within 20 km: Crested Ibis Pear Garden 朱鹮梨园 (under 10 km), Tomb and Temple of Cai Lun 蔡伦墓祠 (10 km), Zhiguo Temple 智果寺 (10 km), Juehuang Hall, Liangma Temple 良马寺觉皇殿 (20 km).
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