According to historical records, in the 19th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty (AD 645), Xuanzang returned from India, bringing with him a large number of Buddhist relics, hundreds of Sanskrit scriptures of Beye and eight gold and silver Buddha statues. With the approval of the imperial court, Xuanzang personally presided over the construction of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in order to worship and treasure the Buddhist scriptures, gold and silver Buddha statues, relics and other treasures brought back. But until now, no one knows where the treasure Xuanzang brought back is.
Wang Yarong thought there was a dungeon under the ancient pagoda. Just as there is a dungeon under the Famen Temple pagoda, there must be a dungeon under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, but it has not been excavated yet. It is speculated that the underground palace under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is likely to contain Buddhist treasures that Xuanzang brought back at the beginning.
Xie Shoutao, director of the Xi Wild Goose Pagoda Storage Center, said that in 2007, the relevant departments had detected the internal structure of the Wild Goose Pagoda, and the ground penetrating radar had detected a hole in the underground of the Wild Goose Pagoda, which should be the underground palace of the Wild Goose Pagoda.
Building structure
Cen Can, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once said, "Pagoda, towering into the sky, reaches the Heavenly Palace. Climbing, we seem to have left the world behind us, and our overlooking steps are hanging in space. It is above the holy land and can only be built through spiritual hard work. Its four sides are dark tomorrow, and its seven layers are cut with gray clouds. " This shows the grandeur of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
Wild goose pagoda; Dayan Pagoda; Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a square pavilion tower, which is made of brick-like wood structure and consists of tower foundation, tower body and tower gate. The whole tower is 64.7 meters high, the tower foundation is 4.2 meters high, the length from north to south is about 48.7 meters, and the length from east to west is about 45.7 meters. The bottom of the tower is 25.5 meters long and has a square cone shape; Tasha is 4.87 meters high. 1, 9 rooms on the second floor, 7 rooms on the third and fourth floors, and 5 rooms on the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth floors. There are 30 doors on all sides of each floor.
Both sides of the south gate cave on the ground floor are embedded with the Preface to the Sanzang Holy Church Monument in Tang Dynasty and the Preface to the Sanzang Holy Church Monument in Tang Dynasty. The two monuments were built in the fourth year of Tang Yonghui (AD 653). The Preface to the Three Monks of Datang is written from right to left and placed in the west niche, while the Preface to the Three Monks of Datang is written from left to right and placed in the east niche. These two tablets were written by Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, and Li Zhi, Crown Prince (later Tang Gaozong). They were written by Chu Suiliang, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. The specifications of the two monuments are the same. The head of the monument is round, and the lines on both sides of the monument body are obviously divided, showing a trapezoidal shape with narrow upper part and wide lower part (this is a typical Tang monument shape). The stele seat is a square stele seat, engraved with connecting lines. The height of the two monuments is 337.5 cm, the width of the monument surface is 86 cm and the width of the lower part is 100 cm.