Pagoda
The pagoda is eight-sided, has five floors and is built from black bricks. The tapering of the pagoda is not large, with the first floor’s diameter being 6.5 meters and the top’s being 5.05 meters. Each floor’s support pillars are not tapered, a particular feature of many Liao dynasty pagodas.
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“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)