Wanfo tower

Pagodas were first used for the worship and placement of buddhist relics,scriptures and various dharma objects,originatingfrom ancient India.Buddhist pagoda, transliteration of Sanskrit “dou tu Po”:Baliwen transliterated “ta Po”bivin”dao Po”or “futu”:The names in Chinese are “iu””ao xian””fang fen””vuan zhuan””sirit temole””shii paooda” “seven pagodas”, etc.During the sui and tang dynasties,the translated name was”pagoda”and isstill in use today.Buildings made of bricks and so on,but in later generations, they were built with piles of earth stone brick and wood as buildinas for worshinit is a nlace of nilarimaae of worshin of worshin of nraver