Ta'er Temple (Suoyang City)

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The Ta'er Temple (Chinese: 塔尔寺; lit. 'Pagoda Temple') is the modern name of a ruined Buddhist temple outside of the walls of Suoyang City in Guazhou County, Gansu, China. It has been tentatively identified with the King Ashoka Temple (Chinese: 阿育王寺; pinyin: Āyùwāng Sì) recorded in historical documents, which was first built in the Northern Zhou dynasty (557–581) at the latest. The extant ruins, including the main adobe pagoda and eleven smaller ones, mostly date to the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227).