The pagoda of the Chan master Jingzang stands on a hillside near Huishan Temple in Dengfeng. It is the funerary pagoda of the Tang monk Jingzang and was built in the Tianbao era. A single-storey octagonal brick tower, it has columns, bracket sets, doors and windows imitated in brick, and its eaves are topped by corbelled courses closing into the roof. Most Tang pagodas are square; this is the only surviving octagonal Tang pagoda, and Liang Sicheng noted that the octagon became the usual plan only from the Song and Liao onwards.
