The White Pagoda of Miaoying Temple stands inside Fuchengmen in Xicheng District, Beijing; the temple is popularly called the White Pagoda Temple. Begun in the Yuan, it was designed by the Nepalese craftsman Araniko and is about 51 metres high, built of brick and whitewashed with lime. Its body is rounded and squat, set on two tall Sumeru bases and crowned with a finial of rings and a canopy; it is the earliest and largest Tibetan-style pagoda in China. Liang Sicheng took it as the representative of the bottle-shaped pagoda brought from Tibet in the Yuan.
