What are the characteristics of stupa?

Pagodas are also called pagodas (transliteration of Sanskrit Buddha), and Tibetan is called "Qudeng". Pagodas were originally used to worship relics, scriptures or utensils. Buddhism was first introduced to China in the first century A.D., and after sinicization, Chinese Buddhism was formed. The style of stupa has also changed from a bowl-covered pagoda to a pavilion pagoda and a pavilion pagoda, from which a dense eaves pagoda has been derived. The pagodas in China include wooden pagodas, brick pagodas and other building materials. Many pagodas are engraved with pagodas, Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures and so on.

Pagodas in China can be divided into wooden pagodas, masonry pagodas, metal pagodas and glazed pagodas. Wooden pagodas dominated during the Han and Southern and Northern Dynasties, and brick pagodas were developed during the Tang and Song Dynasties.

According to the types, it can be divided into pavilion tower, dense eaves tower, Lama tower, King Kong throne tower and tomb tower.

The tower is generally composed of underground palace, pedestal, tower body and tower gate. The plane of the tower is mostly square and octagonal, but also hexagonal, dodecagonal and circular. The number of floors of the tower is generally odd, such as three, five, seven, nine, eleven and thirteen floors ... The so-called saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, which refers to the seven-level tower. There are solid towers, hollow towers, single towers and double towers. One of the functions of China Pagoda is to climb the tower and overlook it.

The working people in China have absorbed the Buddhist art of ancient India and Nepal successively, and combined the essence of China traditional architecture to create a unique Chinese-style "tower". For example, the "White Pagoda of Miaoying Temple" in Beijing, built in the Yuan Dynasty, is an example. With a height of 5 1 m, it is the earliest and largest Buddhist pagoda in China, also known as Lama Pagoda.