Posted on 12/13/2017 11:53:05 AM PST by Red Badger
The Lingguan Tower in China was completed destroyed by flames yesterday Fire started from a hall below the pagoda and quickly spread to the structure Two other buildings in Nine Dragons Monastery were also reduced to rubble No casualties was reported and authority is investigating the cause of the fire
A huge fire yesterday reduced a 16-storey Buddhist pagoda to rubble in China.
The Lingguan Tower, billed as 'Asia's tallest wooden pagoda', burnt to the ground after being engulfed in the flames for about four hours.
The fire reportedly started from a hall underneath the pagoda and quickly spread to the wooden structure.
The fire started at around 12:40pm at the Main Hall of the Nine Dragons Monastery, which is situated in Mianzhu city, Sichuan Province, reported People's Daily Online.
The Buddhist temple is known as the Jiulong Monastery in Chinese.
High winds quickly pushed the blaze towards the pagoda as well as the Hall of Arhan near the Main Hall, said the report.
The three buildings occupied an area of more than 800 square metres (8,611 square feet).
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What a terrible shame. There wasn’t much left of the old China after Mao got finished, and now here’s another major treasure gone.
Wow!
All formations are impermanent
With nine dragons hanging around the place, it was only a matter of time.
any recent muzzie migration into the area?
rimshot.
FRAME ON!
That’s for the Mexican carpenters!..................
That’s the trouble with Chinese pagodas.
You build one and a thousand years later you gotta build another one!..........
I think this one was a real accident. They were renovating it when the fire broke out...............
The fire must have been incredible with all of that wood.
That’s total kr@p.
A retro fit of a sprinkler system may have been indicated.
Muzzies are likely celebrating, though likely not the cause as Japan has a common sense, comprehensive immigration policy.
Ceramics rule...
along with snakes, sparklers, Jumping Jacks, chasing whistlers ... until I discovered stuff that blew up!
That was probably inspired by the one in China.
It will be rebuilt.
This time with water sprinklers..................
Confucious say: Wise man not keep dragon that breathes fire in wooden structure.
Creepy! That’s EXACTLY the same firework that I thought of when reading this story. The Friendship Pagoda was her favorite and we had to buy one every year. It spins, whistles, then at the end it pops up and has a small read lantern burning in the windows.
Friendship Pagoda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5H_yfj5Wns
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