An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 27, 2025 shows the Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple in Yingxian County, north China's Shanxi Province. Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple, well known as the Wooden ...

The author is an architect and professor emeritus at Korea National University of Arts. In early Indian Buddhism, the stupa, ...

Tourists all around the world are fond of visiting thousands-of-years-old structures in China to get to know more about its history, heritage and rare known facts. But what if we tell you that there ...

The real name of the pagoda, located in Fogong (Buddha's Palace) Temple in the northwestern corner of the county town of Yingxian, is Sakyamuni Pagoda. Since it was built completely of timber, it has ...

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Artificial intelligence is being used to safeguard the country’s oldest and tallest wooden pagoda in North China’s Shanxi province that has withstood natural disasters and human calamities for 968 ...

TAIYUAN - A rain-proof renovation on the Yingxian Pagoda, believed to be the world's oldest existing wooden pagoda, has been completed, according to an official in North China's Shanxi province on ...

The 67.31 meter pagoda is also called the Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple Beijing: A nearly 1,000-year-old wooden pagoda in China's northern Shanxi province, has been declared the world's tallest ...

The Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple, located in the northwestern corner of Yingxian County, is a wooden pagoda built in 1056 during the Liao Dynasty (907-1125). Since it was built completely of ...