| Sanzang
Pagoda (built 1944)
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sites in Nanjing |
Nanjing, China |
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Sanzang Pagoda, built in 1944, is located just south of Xuanwu lake on "Little Jiuhua Hill," the top of which is almost exactly level with the Ming wall around the city. The pagoda here balances nicely with the one at Jiming Temple at the other end (to the west) of a long straight stretch of the wall. The pagoda houses the remains of the Tang dynasty monk, Xuan Zang, who is famous for his trip to India to bring back Buddhist scripture. His remains were discovered by a Japanese archeologist excavating Bao’en Temple in 1943 and were placed in this specially designed pagoda in 1944. The stele describing Xuan Zang and his journeys was heavily damaged during the Cultural Revolution.
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Kerk L. Phillips of Brigham Young University, Utah, USA.
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