Ayuwang Pagoda
The Ayuwang Pagoda (Chinese: 阿育王塔; pinyin: A Yu Wang Tǎ) of Daixian, Shanxi province, China, is a pagoda first built during the Sui Dynasty in 601. During the next six hundred years it was destroyed three times before finally being built in its surviving form during the Yuan Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, it was heavily damaged in an earthquake.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Zhao (2007), 130.
References
- Zhao Yu, ed. Shanxi. Beijing: Chinese Travel Press, 2007
Coordinates: 39°04′49″N 112°57′18″E / 39.0803°N 112.955°E
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