The Zhidu Temple Pagoda (Chinese: 智度寺塔; pinyin: Zhidu Sìtǎ) of Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China, is a pagoda dating from the Liao dynasty.
Famous quotes containing the words temple and/or pagoda:
“This flea is you and I, and this
Our mariage bed, and mariage temple is;
Though parents grudge, and you, w’are met,
And cloystered in these living walls of Jet.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)