The Three Pagodas of Chongshen Monastery is composed with one bigger and two smaller towers

The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple is composed with one bigger and two smaller towers. The bigger and middle one is also called Qianxun Tower, which was a square tower of brick with eaves that was first built in the regime of Quanfengyou of Nanzhao (the year from 823 to 859). This is a Tang style 16 floor tower, standing on a two floor base, 69.13 meter high. The first floor is 13.45 meter high, the highest floor with 3.3 meter thick wall. Floors from the second to the fifteenth are built in the same way and in similar size. The sixteenth floor is the cap floor. Take the second floor as an example; it is 2 meter high and 10 meter wide with overlapping eaves. The 17 layers brick projects outward from 5 centimeter to 7 centimeter. The four corners on each eave projects out upward. In the middle of the west and east outside wall of the tower, there are is a Buddha niche, in which seated a Buddha statue. On each side of the niche, there is a smaller niche with lotus base, hip roof and a sutra tablet in Sanskrit. In the middle of the south and north outside wall, there is a window like tunnel connecting to the center of the tower. On the third floor, the niches are in the south and north side, while the window like tunnel in the west and east side. Each floor above alternates. The tower body shrinks upward. The cap floor is 8 meter high, about 1/7 of the tower. On the top seated a treasure bottle in the shape of gourd cast of copper. Under the bottle, there is an eight angle treasure cover with four angles projecting out. Wind shifter is fixed above a iron framed copper covered wheel and a Buddha vessel on lotus base. Qianxun Tower is empty with a simple wood ladder reaching the roof, through the windows people can get a whole view of the ancient city. Welcome to China, Chinatourguide.com is pleasure to provide service for your China tours, We also provide Thailand tour packages or Cambodia tour packages.

Straight and towering, the Quadrangular Qianxun Pagoda, the main one was exquisitely constructed, with multiple tiers of eaves. It has 16 storeys and a height of 69.13 meters. In the central part of each facade, a shrine was built and a Buddha statue of white marble installed. The two other pagodas of 10 stories are 42.19 meters high. They are solid and beautiful, and in octagonal shape. Coated with white mud, and carved with a shrine, a Buddha statue, lotus flowers, etc. on each story, the pagodas look elegant and stately. On top of the pagoda are placed three bronze gourds, representative of the ethnic style.