Photos of Jingguang Tower

The Jingguang Pagoda is located on the top of Songtai Mountain and was built in the Yuan Dynasty and the middle period of the Tang Dynasty. In the early days, it was built for Zen Master Yongjia Sujue, an eminent monk from Wenzhou in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Sujue, whose name is Mingdao, has a common surname of Dai, a native of Yongjia (now from Lucheng District), a monk at the age of four, and has extensive experience in economics. The influence of Buddhism is far-reaching, and the world is called "Zen Master Sujue". Chan Master Sujue first became a monk at Longxing Temple in Yongjia. In the second year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (AD 713), he passed away in the other courtyard of Longxing Temple. Later generations built a pagoda in Songtai Mountain to enshrine his real ashes. Emperor Xizong of Tang named the pagoda as "Jingguang Pagoda". The pagoda was built in the Yimao year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1375 AD), but it was destroyed in the Hongzhi reign of the Ming Dynasty (1499 AD).