Dayan Ta (Great Wild Goose Pagoda, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Giant Wild Goose Pagoda); Da Ci'ensi (Temple of Great Goodwill)
Location
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Latitude
34.22287
Longitude
108.96403
Description
Photographed June 9, 2001.
Work Dates
ca. 652, rebuilt 704, renovated ca. 1580 and 1964
Century
7, 8, 16
Style/Period
Chinese dynastic, Tang; Chinese dynastic, Ming
Culture
Chinese
Material
Stone, Brick (originally rammed earth with stone exterior facade)
Work Type
Ceremonial structures -- Religious structures -- Religious buildings -- Pagodas; Complexes -- Religious complexes -- Temple complexes
Subject
Religions -- Buddhism
Image Source
Peter Goss.
Rights
Digital image copyright 2012, Peter Goss, goss@arch.utah.edu. All rights reserved. Use of this file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Contrib. Institution
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections and the School of Architecture
CA+P Accession No.
P0810n05_08_39286
Digital Format
image/jpeg
RecordType
image
Digitization Specs
Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
