Dujiangyan thousand Buddha pagoda

Qianfo pagoda is located on the left side of Lingyan temple, Lingyan mountain, 5km north of Dujiangyan City. The pagoda was built during the reign of Kaiyuan of Tang Dynasty (713-741) when Indian monk Ashdod rebuilt Lingyan temple. It is a solid stone pagoda with a height of 3 meters and a bottom diameter of about 7.5 meters. It has a Xumi type pagoda base and a bowl shaped pagoda body on top. It has 13 layers, big at the bottom and small at the top. Each layer is full of flail seated Buddha statues, so it is called thousand Buddha pagoda. The lower three layers of Buddha statues are carved with lotus sitting on the neck light, and the upper layers are reduced in turn. The statue is several centimetres high, exquisitely carved, with clear clothing patterns and a kind look, totaling more than 800. The top of the tower is decorated with two layers of lotus petals, on which there is a lotus seat, and a statue of Buddha with iron casting. The style of the statue is different from that of the stone statue, which is suspected to be a back match. The thousand Buddha pagoda is very famous in Song Dynasty. The poet Fan Chengda said, "the five bridges know the way new today, and the Thousand Buddhas were named old in those days.". It is rare in Sichuan for its peculiar shape and fine carving.

Address: 5 km north of Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province

Longitude: 103.60120378972

Latitude: 31.00188505022