Five Pagoda Temple of Hohhot, Buddhist temple in Old City, Hohhot, China.

The Five Pagoda Temple is a Buddhist temple in Hohhot with five pagodas rising from a sturdy base, forming a compact square structure. The pagodas are arranged so that they create a unified composition visible from all angles around the site.

The Mongol monk Yangcarci, serving as jasak lama of Guihua City, petitioned the Qing court to build a branch temple for Xiaozhao. Construction ran from 1727 to 1732, when the Qing court granted the name Cideng Temple and a trilingual plaque in Mongolian, Tibetan and Chinese. After the third Yangcarci reincarnation died in 1886, the lamas returned to Xiaozhao and the temple fell into disuse; only the Diamond Throne stupa survived the 1960s.

The walls display carved Buddha figures alongside inscriptions in multiple languages, reflecting how this place brought together people from different faith traditions. These layers of scripts and symbols show the religious mixing that characterized the region's communities.

The temple is open to visitors during daylight hours and welcomes guests throughout the year. The site is easy to reach from the main roads in the old part of the city, and there are spaces to walk around and view the structure.

Behind the stupa, on its outer northern wall, three round stone carvings are set side by side: the wheel of life, a Buddhist cosmological diagram, and a Mongolian star chart. The chart, assembled from eight white marble slabs 1.445 m across, marks the 28 lunar mansions and the 24 solar terms; its inscription dates it to 1725, two years before the stupa was begun.