Qianxun Pagoda, Chongsheng Temple, Dali, Yunnan 大理崇圣寺千寻塔
The Qianxun Pagoda is the central and main tower of the Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in Dali. Built in the Nanzhao period of the Tang, it is a square dense-eaved brick pagoda of sixteen storeys and almost seventy metres, the tallest ancient pagoda in Yunnan. It narrows steadily storey by storey and has a graceful outline. Liang Sicheng groups it with the Small Wild Goose Pagoda at Xi’an and the West Pagoda at Kunming as Tang single-body, many-eaved pagodas. With the two smaller, later pagodas to north and south it makes up the Three Pagodas.
