Officials say the gates will automatically close at 9:00 p.m. each night and visitors are advised to exit the area prior to ...
I became a familiar presence at the main pagoda in Saigon ... and he set himself on fire and died. I was there, the only western correspondent present and taking pictures. I suppose I took ...
After the temple was destroyed by fire and rebuilt five times, the current tower was erected in 1426 during the Muromachi Period (1336-1573). The pagoda seen from nearby Sarusawaike pond is ...
Five years after the wooden pagoda was burnt down, the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty ordered another one built on the same site. This time it was built of fire-resistant glazed bricks that ...
IndyCar president James Douglas Boles has announced that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Pagoda is set to light up once again ahead of the Indy 500. The Pagoda has been on the site since 1913.
The pagoda was erected during the Nara Period (710-784) at the encouragement of Empress Komyo, the wife of Emperor Shomu. It has been destroyed by fire on five occasions but rebuilt each time.
that says that fifty years earlier both the temple and pagoda were burnt down in a big fire and that an official of that time had a thirteen-storey brick pagoda built there. The existing pagoda is ...