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Is Tallinn a cemetery?

Tallin is also called Tower Tomb.

The pagoda forest is also called the pagoda grave. Generally, after the death of a famous monk in the Buddhist world, people will put his ashes and bones into the underground palace and build a pagoda on the ground to show his merits during his lifetime. The height and size are determined according to the monk's attainments, prestige and merit in Buddhism.

Generally, after the death of a famous monk in the Buddhist world, people will put his ashes and bones into the underground palace, and build a pagoda on the ground to show his merits during his lifetime. The height and size of the pagoda are based on the monk's expectations. The attainments, prestige and merits of Buddhism are determined. The Shaolin Temple Pagoda Forest is located at the foot of the mountain about 300 meters west of the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. It is the cemetery of monks from the Shaolin Temple through the Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, covering an area of ​​about 20,000 square meters. The pagoda forest of Shaolin Temple preserves 241 masonry tomb pagodas of various generations from the seventh year of Zhenyuan in the Tang Dynasty (791) to the eighth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty.

The levels of the towers are different, generally from level 1 to level 7, with a height of less than 15 meters. Most of them have inscriptions and foreheads. There are many types of towers and various styles. The Shaolin Temple Pagoda Forest has the largest number of existing ancient pagodas in China. It is a treasure trove of precious physical materials for comprehensively studying the development history of Chinese architecture, sculpture art and religion. It is known as the "Chinese Ancient Pagoda Art Museum".