Giant Wild Goose Pagoda

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda (大 雁塔Chinese, Pinyin Dayan tǎ ) is a pagoda in the Chinese city of Xi'an.

It was built in the year 652, in the courtyard of the " Monastery of the Great Charity ", which was built in memory of his deceased mother of Emperor Gaozong.

History

The temple, which once consisted of more than ten yards, was completed in 648. A little later moved the monk Xuanzang in a decorated extracting " Office for the translation of Buddhist scriptures " and devoted himself from the year 650 of the translation and the Comment of Buddhist texts:

"When he came across a difficulty, he put his signature to the side, then, after he had prayed to Buddha and fulfilled his religious duties to the third watch of the night, he got up ( the fifth night watch again from his bed ), read the Indian text with a loud voice, and stroked with red ink successively places he intended to translate at sunrise. At the dawn of every day he took a meager meal and explained four hours a new holy book. His students, who came to him to ask him for his advice and instruction, filled the galleries and adjacent halls. "