Datong Fahua Temple

Fahua Temple was built in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, but the historical Fahua Temple no longer exists. Apart from the White Pagoda in the temple, all other buildings are newly built in recent years. The only surviving White Pagoda in the temple is the only inverted bowl-shaped glazed lama pagoda in Datong City, named after a copy of the Lotus Sutra stored in the pagoda. The entire temple building is high and low, and there are four entrances in total. Different from other Fahua Temples, there is a white pagoda in Datong's Fahua Temple. The White Pagoda is a brick and stone structure, about 12 meters high. It is divided into three parts: the pagoda base, the pagoda body, and the pagoda stupa. The pagoda base is on a square platform built of 2-meter-high steles. There are brick walls, corridors, and corner columns around the platform. There are stone-carved orbs on the corner columns. There are brick arch kiln holes on both sides of the platform. There are stone steps to climb the platform, and there are three large stone-carved characters "Xiaodongtian" above the cave door.