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Rebuilt 4 times since 618 AD, Chinese pagoda is now world's tallest

[On Monday] hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered in Changzhou, China, to celebrate the opening of what local officials say is the world's tallest pagoda. The towering structure [costing about $13m] stands nearly 505 feet (154 meters) tall—reaching 50 feet (15 meters) higher than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.

The wooden tower was recently added to the ancient Tianning Temple, a Buddhist complex dating back to China's Tang Dynasty, which lasted from A.D. 618 to 907. The temple has been destroyed and rebuilt in the same spot five times...

The massive pagoda is seen by some as a symbol of Buddhist revitalization in the country. Today about a hundred million of China's 1.3 billion people are Buddhist.
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