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 Seating elegantly on the hill behind the Menlong
Village, Menglong Township, 70 km from Jinghong city is Menglong
White Pagoda, while his brother, the Black Pagoda in Damenglong is
located on a small hill, west of Damenglong Township and 73 km
from the Jinghong.
Constructed in 1203, White Pagoda was shaped after
bamboo shoot. A brick-clay conned structure with solid core, it
consists of a mother pagoda, several baby pagodas and six huge
clay dragons. The White Pagoda was famous at home and in southeast
Asian countries for a Buddhist " holy deed ", that is, the half of
footprint 80 cm long and 58 cm wide, which said to be left by Sakyamuni, the founder of the Buddhist religion. The White Pagoda
is a key cultural relics unit under State protection.
 Constructed in 1204, the Black Pagoda was
originally of black appearance upon completion. It is a
calabash-shaped hexahedron 18-meter-high 7-storey pagoda embraced
with eight colored clay dragons. In the past 800 years , it has
been painted several times, and now it is of silver white
appearance. The Black Pagoda is also famous at home and abroad for
a footprint 160cm long and 60cm wide left by deity Pazhao Getama.
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