Pagoda components and templates

The authored page exactly as written: the eroded limestone plinth turning under a stone lantern, wound about by skeins of spun light and a slow spiral of tumbling debris.

The same bluff carrying a medieval keep, laid stone by stone against a crown profile that decides how high each wall still stands — quoined corners, arched windows, a gate arch in the curtain wall, a turret taken down on its outward side, and a fire still burning in the broken crown.

A round table of rock carrying a polar maze carved by a depth-first walk — six rings of kerbstone with real dead ends, a hearth at the middle, and the one true route lit as a thread of light that walks itself from the mouth inward, seen from an eye lifted to read the plan.

The same rock quarried into two terraces for a Japanese shrine: a vermilion torii and its laid-up straw rope on the low ground, a stair between them, a pair of lit stone lanterns, and a hall whose bark roof holds a level ridge, an eave that lifts to its four corners, and crossed chigi at the gable.

A Japanese tenshu with an ishigaki stone base, plastered storeys, and flying tiled eaves.

A Chinese pagoda in vermilion lacquer and green glaze beneath a gilt finial.

A Vietnamese tháp with seven octagonal Huế lime-wash storeys and lifted tiled eaves.

A Thai prang rising from a stepped plinth into a richly detailed gold spire.

A Khmer prasat on laterite terraces with a redented sanctuary and diminishing sandstone tiers.

An Ottoman mosque with limestone ashlar, İznik tile, a lead dome, and twin pencil minarets.