Fawang Temple Pagoda, Dengfeng, Henan 河南登封法王寺塔

Location: China, Henan, Dengfeng, Zhengzhou Google Maps Amap
Part of: Mount Song, Zhengzhou, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit
Chinese Culture: Ancient Chinese Architecture, Chapter 5: Sui and Tang
Nearby: Shaolin Temple ←︎8km, Northern Song Imperial Tombs ↑︎27km, Gongyi Grottoes ↑︎34km, Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang ←︎51km, Luoyang ←︎61km, Zhengzhou Yellow River ↗︎67km, Erlitou Site and Museum, Luoyang ↖︎36km, Mount Shennong ↑︎79km, Hulao Pass, Xingyang, Henan ↗︎41km, Qiyun Pagoda, White Horse Temple, Luoyang, Henan ↖︎45km

The Fawang Temple Pagoda stands behind the temple on the southern slope of Mount Taishi in the Songshan range at Dengfeng. A square Tang brick pagoda of fifteen close-set eaves and about 40 metres high, it has a tall first storey, and the eaves above draw in layer by layer so that the outline curves softly inward. Liang Sicheng put it in the same class of Tang pagodas as the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi’an. Three smaller Tang pagodas stand beside it.

Fawang Temple Pagoda, Dengfeng, Henan

Photo: Xin (CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)