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- Pagoda Forest of Shaolin Temple
Initially, the tradition of building pagodas came to China from India. Today, near ancient temples in China, you can often find groups of pagodas, and the older the temple, the more pagodas. The largest and most famous forest of Talin Pagodas is located three hundred meters west of the Shaolin Monastery and has about 300 buildings. Pagodas, in fact, are the graves of prominent monks who lived, served and died in Shaolin. The Talin Pagodas are not only remarkable for their quantity, but also for the fact that they were built during the reign of six different dynasties of Chinese emperors and represent a variety of architectural styles and techniques.
The periods in which these or those pagodas of Talin were built are easily guessed by their shapes - polygonal, cylindrical, conical, monolithic, in the form of a parabola, vase, circle, there are both one-story and nine-story, and the construction dates indicated on the monuments vary from 618 until 1911.
There are pagodas in Tallinn that were built for some famous foreign monks. One of them is located on the eastern side of the forest, the epitaph on the pagoda was written by a Japanese monk in the Shaolin Temple with an exquisite syllable and beautiful handwriting. In the western part there is also a pagoda of an Indian monk.
The forest of pagodas of the Shaolin Monastery covers an area of more than 21,000 square meters and is a real museum of ancient architecture, preserving the architectural monuments of six dynasties. Despite the fact that the monastery itself was almost completely destroyed several times, it was possible to keep this ancient cemetery intact. Talin is of great value for the study of Chinese traditional art.
