Pagoda of Master Fanzhou, building in Shanxi, China

The Pagoda of Master Fanzhou is a single-storey brick pagoda with a circular plan, 10 m high and 5.75 m in diameter at the base, standing on the site of the ruined Baoguo Temple in Yuncheng, Shanxi. Its square pilasters divide the body into eight bays: a rectangular door on the south, the tomb inscription on the north, and false doors and latticed windows elsewhere. The eaves carry imitation wooden rafters and tile ends, and the finely worked spire has a bowl, lotus petals and a flaming pearl.

Construction began in 793, the ninth year of the Zhenyuan era, and the pagoda inscription was carved in 822, the second year of Changqing. It was the tomb pagoda of Master Fanzhou, a Tang imperial clansman reported to be a grandson of Emperor Gaozong or a descendant of Li Shouli, Prince of Bin. It stood at the Baoguo Temple, long since destroyed; the site was listed as a national heritage site in 2001 and repaired in 2013–2014.

The pagoda takes its name from Fanzhou, a Tang monk whose relics it enshrined; the German article calls him a leading monk of the Tang period, and Chinese reports link him to the imperial Li family, as a grandson of Emperor Gaozong or a descendant of Li Shouli, Prince of Bin. The carved epitaph on the north side, titled for the Baoguo Temple of Anyi County, records his life and the building of the pagoda.

The pagoda stands on the grounds of the ruined Baoguo Temple in Sibei village, Daqu subdistrict, Yanhu district, northwest Yuncheng. It is a single-storey structure ten metres high with no stairs to climb; the interior is not open for ascent. The site was restored between 2013 and 2014. Approach on foot along village paths; the circular plan and the north-face inscription are best seen up close.

The inscription on the north side, titled "Pagoda Inscription of the Late Vinaya Master Fanzhou of Baoguo Temple, Anyi County", is carved in vertical columns running from left to right, an arrangement rarely used in ancient Chinese stone carving. It records Fanzhou's life and the building of the pagoda.