It lies about 20 kilometers to the south of Xian. It is very close to the Wangqu town. The two square brick pagodas were built over the ashes of the Buddhist Shandao, one of the patriarchs of Pure Land Buddhism preached salvation through faith rather than meditation. Shandao had a great influence upon the development of Japanese Buddhism. This pagoda was built by a disciple named Huaiyun and it is 11-storey high. There is a smaller five-storey brick pagoda near to the east of the bigger one, which was built to commemorate Jingye, a disciple of the Buddhist Shandao. Originally, around the pagoda were the building of one of the great temple-monasteries of Tang Changan, for some reasons, it disappeared long before. It has brackets in relief and imitates a wooden structure. There are about 25 monks who lived in this temple.
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