The Yongning Temple Pagoda Record
- Date of account
- 516–534 CE
- Location
- Luoyang, Henan
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Northern Wei sources describe the enormous wooden pagoda of Yongning Temple at Luoyang, commissioned by Empress Dowager Hu and reportedly destroyed by fire in 534. The structure is known mainly through textual descriptions and archaeological investigation of its foundation. Its scale has sometimes been exaggerated in later popular accounts, making it a useful case for comparing literary measurements, monumental rhetoric, and material evidence. The lead can support research on Buddhist architecture, court patronage, and how lost buildings become “mysteries.” This is AI-recalled and not a citation.
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