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Original - The Pagoda of Fogong Temple is China's oldest surviving fully-wooden pagoda.
Reason
The Pagoda of Fogong Temple, built in 1056 AD in Ying County, Shanxi province, China during the Liao Dynasty; although by far not China's oldest Buddhist pagoda (the oldest known ones are made of either brick or stone), it is nonetheless China's oldest surviving fully-wooden pagoda (all previous fully-wooden pagodas have been lost due to natural decay and people setting fires). This iconic image failed its featured picture candidacy over some arbitrary concern about rotating the image slightly by a percent of a degree (???). As far as I know, it violates no VP criteria and is an exceptionally illustrative picture for its topic.
Articles this image appears in
11th century, Liao Dynasty, Pagoda, Chinese architecture, Chinese pagoda, 1050s in architecture, Architecture of the Song Dynasty, Pagoda of Fogong Temple, Khitan people
Creator
Gisling

Promoted File:The Fugong Temple Wooden Pagoda.jpg --wadester16 17:08, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]