Big Wild Goose pagoda was built in 652 ad during the Tang dynasty. There is a brick pagoda on the temple grounds Danfu 4 km from the city centre of XI'an. The height of the building 64, 7 meters. Because of the destruction of the original number of levels was reduced in two times, but was able to reconstruct the third. Now the pagoda has seven storeys.

Construction work was carried out on the orders of Emperor Gao Zong of the Tang dynasty, who wanted to perpetuate the memory of their mother. The name comes from a legend: a passing of these places the Buddha felt a great desire to taste the meat of wild geese, but overcame the temptation. The main purpose of the construction of the pagoda was to preserve sacred Buddhist texts and relics, which brought the monk Xuan Can from India.

Big Wild Goose pagoda, amazing architectural idea of the building, is a building composed entirely of bricks, no fastening solution. Used the same method as during the construction of Chinese architects wooden structures, so-called "fork".

Sanctuary with three statues - the incarnations of Buddha Shakyamuni - located on the lower tier. In one of the adjacent tier structures stored in the bell of the Ming dynasty. The weight of the bell 15 tons.

Each subsequent tier is smaller than the previous one. Each floor has arched doors, covered with beautiful carvings. In 1958 he built a staircase, up which you can admire panoramic views of the surroundings.

Interesting custom has developed in the Tang dynasty. Every candidate for the officials wrote poems on the walls of the pagoda. Some had turned even the whole poem. To have survived the work of several generations of Chinese officials.

In the temple there are two rare steles with the signatures of the emperors of the Tang dynasty. They are here for 1200 years. Also on the territory of the temple is a forest of stupas.

Big Wild Goose pagoda is located on the territory of the temple complex Yes Chen, which was founded in the year 589. Its heyday the temple underwent during the reign of the Tang dynasty. After the temple complex was destroyed gradually. Today on the temple grounds there are thirteen courtyards and 1879 spaces.