Name: Xi'an Xingjiao Temple (Xingjiao Si)

City: Xi'an

Address: 20km south of Xi'an

Admission: CNY18

Xingjiao Temple is located in Shaoling Yuan, Chang'an District of Xi'an City. The five-storied Buddhist Relic Pagoda, preserving the relics of Xuanzang, is inside the temple, along with the pagodas of his desciples, Kuiji and Yuance.

Xingjiao Temple was built in AD 669 in order to re-inhume Xuanzang, ans was one of eight famed temples in Fanchuan in Tang Dynasty.

Xingjiao Temple consists of West Yard and East Yard. Three-square pagodas stand in the West Yard, and the middle one is just the famous Xuanzang Dagoba, which is the oldest brick-built pagoda extant in China. A stone stele at the bottom of this pagoda records Xuanzang's life story, and a colorful clay statue of Xuanzang is enshrined in the brick hole on the ground floor hereof. The other two in the east and west are dagobas for Xuanzang's two disciples. The East Yard is the Sutra Hall in which thousands upon thousands of ancient scriptures of different editions are treasured up. Among them, Beiye (leaf of a kind of palm) Scripture, obtained by Xuanzang from India, is deemed unique treasure.