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Fobaota Temple

Fobaota (佛宝塔, the "Buddha Pagoda Temple") is a striking golden pagoda nestled in the Phoenix Mountain Scenic Area east of Chaoyang city, Liaoning. Completed in 2009 and modeled after a sacred golden relic tower unearthed from Chaoyang's historic North Pagoda, it enshrines relics of two Buddhas — Śākyamuni and Dipankara — making this one of the very few places in China where two sets of Buddhist relics rest side by side. Situated just steps from the Qing-dynasty Yanji Temple (延寿寺) in the mountain's "Lower Temple" zone, the pagoda is the modern centerpiece of a Buddhist landscape whose history stretches back more than 1,600 years to the time when Phoenix Mountain hosted the first Buddhist monastery recorded anywhere in Northeast Asia.