Today only seven pagodas still stand ... It fills a special position in the architectural art of Buddhist pagodas dating to the Kin and Yuan dynasties in the Beijing area.

By the plane shape, there are square, hexagonal, octagonal, twelve-sided and circular pagodas; by the number of storeys, there are single-, three-, five-, seven- and nine-storeyed ones ...

Interconnected caves ascend in a seven-story pagoda-like formation at Mati Temple ... meters in an unbroken masterpiece of history and art. The grottoes, very much like the ancient Silk Road ...