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Cishi Pagoda 慈氏塔Císhì Tǎ
National heritage site · Yueyang, Hunan
- Time needed
- Under an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yueyang
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Cishi Pagoda
A solid seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda 39 m tall on Taqian Street near the lakeshore, one of the oldest surviving pagodas in Hunan, with Buddha niches on four sides of each upper storey. Repairs in 2015 found an inscription dated 1066 and more than 1,000 Tang and Song coins in the spire, pushing its accepted date back from 1242, and it now stands in the restored historic district along Dongting South Road.
How to get to Cishi Pagoda
About 1.5 km south of Yueyang Tower, an easy walk along Dongting South Road.
Nearby
- Yueyang Tower 岳阳楼 under 10 km
A helmet-roofed tower above Dongting Lake, famed for one 11th-century essay
Also within 20 km: Yueyang Confucian Temple 岳阳文庙 (under 10 km), Sheng'an Temple 圣安寺 (under 10 km), Junshan Island 君山岛 (under 10 km), Jiangtun Bay (Finless Porpoise Bay) 江豚湾 (under 10 km), Yuezhou Customs House 岳州关 (under 10 km).
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