Pagoda of Buddhas from Ten Directions Review

The Shifang Zhufo Pagoda is located in the northeast corner of Mafangsi Village, Wangsiying Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing. There is an octagonal nine-story dense brick tower in the ancient tower park. This is the Shifang Zhufo Pagoda. The Shifang Zhufo Pagoda, the north facing south, the tower is25.18 meters high, the tower is3.2 meters high, the tower circumference is about24.9 meters, the arch coupon-shaped door hole, the hole is1.78 meters high, and the stone is carved on the front of the doorway. The heart of the tower is conical. There is an original Yanshou Temple in front of the tower. The tower and temple were built by the Ming Dynasty Cuifeng Zen Master. According to the "Minggu Cuifeng Zen Master's Elephant", Cuifeng Zen Master was born in Chenghua for four years, died in Jiajing for twenty-eight years, and began to build Yanshou Temple at the age of seventy, and built ten-fang Buddha pagodas in the temple. The construction time of the Shifang Buddha Pagoda should be between Jiajing 17 and Jiajing 28 years, and the acetylene age in this period can only be Jiajing 24 years (1545), so the construction time of the Shifang Buddha Pagoda should be Jiajing 24 years (March). The internal structure of the Shifang Buddha Pagoda, "Repairing the ancient temple Yanshou Temple Shifang Buddha Pagoda inscription", read: "The ninth floor, the middle and the eight, □ Inner An, please ask the statue of Flohan, there is a hole in the Tibetan truth with the immortal strong or the claws of the Tibetan clothes teeth, relocating the moral people salty and attached to it. The Shifang Zhufo Pagoda was announced as the fourth batch of cultural relics protection units in Beijing on May 24, 1984, and in 2000, the Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Unit was set up in front of the tower, the Shifang Zhufo Pagoda, the original Yanshou Temple in front of the tower, so commonly known as Yanshou Temple Tower. The temple and the tower were built in the Ming Jiajing years, and the temple was burned by the eight-nation coalition forces at the end of Qing Dynasty.

In the construction, the tower looks very old, but it feels lacking in maintenance, and the top of the tower has grown a lot of weeds. The nearby streets are also under maintenance, that is, the traffic is not convenient, take a taxi, you can go shopping!

More than 500 years of history, originally called Yanshou Temple.