West Temple Pagoda　（西寺塔）

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located in Huiguang Temple, which is now destroyed. The temple was also known as West Temple, so the pagoda came to be known as West Temple Pagoda.

Records show the temple and pagoda were built between 824 and 859, in the Tang Dynasty.
The pagoda resembles Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an in both external appearance and structure.
Some 36 metres high, the square, thirteen-storey, multi-eave pagoda is one of Kunming's most famous. The inside is hollow, with wooden flooring and a staircase. The bricks of the pagoda are inscribed with Buddhist scriptures in both Chinese and Sanskrit, as well as brickmaker's stamps.

Despite being repaired many times over the last thousand years, the pagoda still retains the style of the Tang Dynasty.