Times; Song Ming
Address: Located on Beigushan Mountain, Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province.
Originally a stone pagoda, it was built in the first year of Tang Bao calendar (AD 825). During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the 9-level iron tower was rebuilt. Each floor of the tower has eight sides and four doors, on which the flying sky and the Buddha statue are cast. The original tower collapsed in the Ming Dynasty due to the tsunami, leaving only the lowest four floors.
1960, when Zhenjiang Cultural Management Committee was repairing the iron tower, it found the underground palace three and a half feet away from the tower base. There is a rectangular big stone letter in the underground palace, which runs east and west. On the ten faces, there is a stone inscription "Story of Burying the Pagoda in Kanluoji, Runzhou" on April 8th, the first year of Song Yuanfeng (AD 1078). At the same time, there are two stone carvings, namely "Ayu Relic of Li Deyu Chang Gan Temple" in the fourth year of Tang Changqing (AD 824) and "Relic of Zen Temple in Shangyuan County, Li Deyu" in the third year of Daiwa (AD 829). Therefore, it can be concluded that the relics unearthed in Kanluojitati Palace are the Sakyamuni relics in the Chang Gan Tower of Jinling in the Eastern Jin Dynasty listed in Volume 38 of Fayuan Zhu Lin. This great discovery is of great significance to the study of Buddhist history in Jiangnan area.
The number of Buddhist cultural relics unearthed this time is unprecedented. According to the report of Zhenjiang Museum, there are 772 capsules in total. There are two records in the Tang Dynasty: 1 1 in the small relic gold coffin of Chang Gan Temple and 156 in the relic gold coffin. There were three kinds of bursitis in Song Dynasty: 56 silver boxes, 0/77 silver boxes and 372 wooden boxes, all of which were transparent or translucent particles as small as mustard seeds.