Open hour
8: 00- 17: 00
Ticket
The large kind kindness temple costs 25 yuan, the Great Wild Goose Pagoda steps on 20 yuan of tower.
Traffic
Take 5, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 30, 34, 41, 44, 224, 237, 242, 400, 401, 408, 500, 501, 521, 526, 527, 601, 606, 609, 701, 715, visit 4, visit 6, visit 8( 610) , tour 9( 320) The road public transit is here The Great Wild Goose Pagoda The station gets off and arrives promptly.
Introduce
The Great Wild Goose Pagoda lies in the large kind kindness temple of south suburb, it is the famous ancient building of China, considered as the symbol in Xi an of ancient capital, the full name temple the Great Wild Goose Pagoda of kind kindness .
It is Tang Monk from India according to legend Gu TianZhu) Learn from else s experience after coming back, specialize in translating passing and its place of Tibetan Scripture. Because imitate the construction of Indian wild goose s design of the tower in so the famous wild goose s tower. Because built a less wild goose s tower in Chang An recommended the good fortune temple later, in order to distinguish, people call the kind kindness temple tower the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, recommend the temple tower of the good fortune and call the little wild goose the tower, been spreading so far all the time.
The level of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda is square, built in of about 45 meters, on the base about 5 meters high. Seven storeys of towers, it is 25 meters long by the ground floor, it is 64 meters high from ground to top of the tower. The body of the tower is built of brick, it is unusually firm to rub bricks to sewing. There are stairs in the tower, can wheel and have. There is an arch door opening respectively on four sides on each storey, can lean upon a balustrade and look far into the distance. Have a panoramic view of the style and features of Chang An. All there are crossdrifts on four sides in the ground floor of the tower, have exquisite line that carves the statue of Buddha on the door mast, spread it for big painter Yan LiBen s own handwriting of the Tang Dynasty. Tower the intersection of south gate and brick of both sides, in the shrine, inlay, have one of four major calligraphist Chu satisfy good Datang that wrote 3 hide, teach preface while being holy the beginning such as Tang >>With the intersection of state, three hide, teach preface write while being holy and two stone tablets. Tang, after the the end, temple say war repeatly, hall destroy by fire, the Great Wild Goose Pagoda towering to check alone only. The emblem of building high one in Tang forever of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda is three years, are located in the kind kindness temple, so had another name called the kind kindness temple tower.
The kind kindness temple is ( 648) in the 22nd year of Zhenguan for Tang The crown prince Li Zhi builds in order to recall gentle Germany queen of his mother. The Great Wild Goose Pagoda is five storeys while first building. Military the weather was rebuilt, underwent numerous renovation again later. The present tower is seven storeys, amounts to 64 meters, take the form of square angle awl. The tower is taken as the blue brick and built, per storey of cliff side does imitative timber structure such as square-column of column, column volume. There are certificates on four sides on each storey to build the arched door. This kind of pavilion type brick tower, the model is succinct, spectacular, it is a masterpiece of architecture art of China s Buddhism. Both sides of south gate of ground floor of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, are inlaying in the Tang Dynasty the famous calligraphist Chu satisfied good two stone tablets that wroting. One is that Datang hides and teaches the preface holily three times ; Another the intersection of Tang and high cases of Datang three hide, teach preface write while being holy that write. The side creeping weed pattern of the tablet, the pattern is graceful, the model is vivid. These study the important historical relics of calligraphy, painting, polychromy of the Tang Dynasty. The large kind kindness temple is the Tang most famous, biggest temple(Buddhist) in Chang An, it was the Tang Dynasty the royal imperial order was built. Three Tibet of Tang Xuanzang, has presided over the affair of the temple here, the neck is in charge of translating the field in Sutras, found Buddhism schism. The Great Wild Goose Pagoda in the temple is that he supervises the manufacture in person. So the large kind kindness temple has a position stressed very much in the history of China s Buddhism, the attention outside China all the time. In the temple door, the clock, drum-tower confront each other. The clocks, drums the order of the temple, vulgar have bell in the morning and drum in the evening Saying. Suspended the port of the clock one of iron in Ming Dynasty in midair at the bell tower in the east, it was 15,000 kilograms in weight, it was more than three meters high. The students in the Tang Dynasty, do in the test and pass the highest imperial examinations, inscribe one s name under the kind kindness tower, \ called The wild goose inscribes \ in the tower ,And then follow to practise. Painter Wu Daozi, Wang Wei,etc. once did many mural paintings for the kind kindness temple in the Tang Dynasty, it is already forgotten to cherish. Four door opening of the intersection of stone and goal post, at the door frame, keep line was portrayed exquisite the Tang Dynasties under the Great Wild Goose Pagoda. It is particularly precious that the line on the west stone goal post carves the palace picture. The southeast side of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, there is tomb tower group of Buddhist monk. Among them six were built in Qing Dynasty. Mahavira Temple is the building in the center of the temple, there are three suits of Buddha, Bodhisattva and arhat clay sculpture picture in the hall. Religious chant scriptures in its place. The hall of France is the place for expounding the texts of Buddhism. Have in the hall Amitabha bronze statues. The kind thought temple of today is the scale of Ming Dynasty, but the palace in the temple was the building in last years of Qing Dynasty. The Great Wild Goose Pagoda of now is through repairing, the ancient tower is grand, the hall burning incense of the temple curls up, courtyard flowers contend in beauty, it is one that especially attracts visitors excursion center outside China.