West Pagoda, Kunming, Yunnan 昆明西寺塔
The West Pagoda, also called the Huiguang Temple Pagoda, stands in the city of Kunming, facing the East Pagoda across the streets to the east. It was first built in the Nanzhao period of the Tang and repaired in the Qing. A square, thirteen-storey dense-eaved brick pagoda, it narrows steadily from bottom to top and has a slender outline. Liang Sicheng groups it with the Small Wild Goose Pagoda at Xi’an and the Qianxun Pagoda at Dali as Tang single-body, many-eaved pagodas whose outline narrows upwards in a soft curve.
