Located in Liurong Temple on North Chaoyang Road in Guangzhou, the pagoda was built in 537 during the Liang Dynasty. The original pagoda was a huge square wooden structure. It was destroyed in a ...

In 676 during the Tang Dynasty, Huineng, one of the six founders of China's Buddhism, had his head shaven in Guangxiao Temple and became a monk. Later monks of the temple built the pagoda to bury ...