Construction of pavilion-style brick and stone pagodas, either single-or multistoreyed, reached its height during the Tang Dynasty. The pagoda with relief sculptures on bricks at Xiuding Temple in ...
During the Tang Dynasty, Empress Wu Zetian built a 50-metre pagoda of cast bronze and iron, called a tianshu, a symbol of state power, in Luoyang. No other metal pagodas of any height, however ...