Dayan Ta (Great Wild Goose Pagoda, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Giant Wild Goose Pagoda); Da Ci'ensi (Temple of Great Goodwill)

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Creator Unknown -- Builder -- Chinese
Title Dayan Ta (Great Wild Goose Pagoda, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Giant Wild Goose Pagoda); Da Ci'ensi (Temple of Great Goodwill)
Spatial Coverage Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Latitude 34.22287
Longitude 108.96403
Description The planned layout. 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)
Subject Ceremonial structures -- Religious structures -- Religious buildings -- Pagodas; Complexes -- Religious complexes -- Temple complexes; Orthographic projections (images) -- Plans -- Site plans; 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/
Contributing Institution University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections and the School of Architecture
CA+P Accession No. P0810n05_08_39290
Format image/jpeg
Type Image
Digitization Specifications Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
ARK ark:/87278/s6r214tt
Setname uu_cap_coa
ID 91684
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6r214tt