The sandstones are often indurated with leached iron deposits that , when weathered , produce a distinctive appearance known as pagodas owing largely to their similarity to the asian architecture .
Under the tang dynasty , architects designed even fancier buddhist pagodas , with eight sides .
根据唐,建筑师设计更炫佛塔,有八个方面。
More than 150 temples , pagodas and monasteries dot an idyllic landscape of lakes , rice paddy and wooded hills .
150座庙宇、佛塔和寺院点缀在风景如画的湖水、稻田和青山之间。
All visitors should see the well-preserved colonial buildings of yangon , the former royal capital mandalay and bagan , the site of more than 2000 pagodas and temples .
Pagodas topped the hills ; some with spires covered in gold leaf , some in white plaster , some decorated in fragments of broken mirror .
山上有宝塔,有些宝塔的尖顶上有金色的叶片,有些则是白色的塑料片,还有些用碎镜片玻璃来装点。
Around xian , the famen temple enjoys the reputation of being the ' forefather of pagodas and temples in central shaanxi , ' because it holds the finger bones of sakyamuni -- the founder of buddhism .