The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in the Dacien Temple of Jinchangfang, Chang"an City, Tang Dynasty, also known as the "Cien Temple Pagoda".
In the three years of Tang Yonghui (652), Xuanzang presided over the construction of the Goose Pagoda for the preservation of the scroll Buddha statues brought back to Chang"an by Tianzhu through the Silk Road.
The first five stories were added to the ninth stories, then the number and height of the seven stories were changed several times.Finally, they were fixed to the seven-story pagodas seen today, with a height of 64.517 meters and a bottom edge length of 25.5 meters.
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in the Dacien Temple of Jinchangfang, Chang"an City, Tang Dynasty, also known as the "Cien Temple Pagoda".
In the three years of Tang Yonghui (652), Xuanzang presided over the construction of the Goose Pagoda for the preservation of the scroll Buddha statues brought back to Chang"an by Tianzhu through the Silk Road.
The first five stories were added to the ninth stories, then the number and height of the seven stories were changed several times.Finally, they were fixed to the seven-story pagodas seen today, with a height of 64.517 meters and a bottom edge length of 25.5 meters.
大雁塔位於唐長安城晉昌坊的大慈恩寺內，又名“慈恩寺塔”。唐永徽三年（652年），玄奘為儲存由天竺經絲綢之路帶回長安的經卷佛像主持修建了大雁塔。最初五層，後加蓋至九層，再後層數和高度又有數次變更。最後固定為今天所看到的七層塔身，通高64.517米，底層邊長25.5米。
擴充套件資料：
大雁塔文物遺址：
一、塔座
大雁塔基座皆有石門，門楣門框上均有精美的線刻佛像及磚雕對聯。底層南門洞兩側嵌置碑石，西龕是由右向左書寫，唐太宗李世民親自撰文、時任中書令的大書法家褚遂良手書的《大唐三藏聖教序》碑。
二、塔身
七層是大雁塔的最高處，可向四周遠眺，古城四方四景盡收眼底。七層的塔頂，刻有聖潔的蓮花藻井，中央為一碩大蓮花，花瓣上共有14個字，連環為詩句，可有數種念法。
三、舍利
唐高宗永徽三年（652年），玄奘法師為存放經像、舍利而建造了大雁塔，玄奘法師究竟帶回多少舍利，在《法師傳》中記載僅說是150枚肉舍利和一函骨舍利，具體數量未說明。