The Zhidu Temple Pagoda (Chinese: 智度寺塔; pinyin: Zhidu Sìtǎ) of Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China, is a pagoda dating from the Liao dynasty.
Famous quotes containing the words temple and/or pagoda:
“Thou shalt make thy house
The temple of a nation’s vows.
Spirits of a higher strain
Who sought thee once shall seek again.
I detected many a god
Forth already on the road,
Ancestors of beauty come
In thy breast to make a home.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)