Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple

The Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple of Ying County, Shanxi area, China, is a wooden Chinese pagoda worked in 1056, amid the Khitan-drove Liao Dynasty. The pagoda was worked by Emperor Daozong of Liao Hongji at the site of his grandma's family home. The pagoda, which has endure a few substantial seismic tremors consistently, achieved a dimension of such acclaim inside China that it was given the conventional epithet of the "Muta". The pagoda remains on a 4 m 13 ft tall stone stage, has a 10 m 33 ft tall steeple, and achieves an aggregate tallness of 67.31 m 220.83 ft tall; it is the most seasoned existent completely wooden pagoda as yet remaining in China.

Although it is the most established completely wooden pagoda in China, the most established existent pagoda is the sixth century Songyue Pagoda made of block; the most established existent wooden structures in China are the Buddhist sanctuary lobbies found at Mount Wutai, which go back to the mid Tang Dynasty. The Pagoda of Fogong Temple and its surroundings are ensured by the SACH part of the Chinese government, and more than 1 million dollars have just been focused on the exploration on fixing and redesigning the unstably standing thousand years old building. In May 2011, Shanxi common experts expressed that the application for the pagoda ought to be done by July 2011 for it to be incorporated on the UNESCO rundown of secured world legacy relics by 2013.