Pagoda Forest of Shaolin Temple is at the north of Shaolin Temple, and it comprises of the tombs of eminent monks of Shaolin Temple generation by generation. For more links of Shaolin Temple, I strongly recommend you to read my ever passage named Shaolin Temple.
For the visitors who have been to Shaolin Temple and have seen Pagoda Forest, they all get amazed at the magnificance and spectacle of Pagoda Forest. There are three things I'd like to say especially about Pagoda Forest.
1. It comprises of the tombs of eminent monks of Shaolin Temple generation by generation. Once the eminent monk died, people put their bone ash or skeleton down into underground palace and then built a pagoda above the underground palace.
2. For the height and low, big and small, many and few of the layers of the pagoda, it depends on how many dedications and how much high reputation the monks have.
3. The modelling of pagodas forest include quadrate, hexagon, octagon, cylinder, rectilinear and so on.
Dear friends, for more details of Pagoda Forest of Shaolin Temple, I think you better come here to Shaolin Temple and have a look at it.