The concept of tower was introduced from India with Buddhism. The word "pagoda" is a transliteration of Sanskrit "stpa", and sometimes it is called pagoda with the transliteration of "Bu-ddha". India's wave block was originally meant to be a tomb, which existed long before Sakyamuni. After the death of Sakyamuni, the body was buried in several waves, and the wave blocking has since taken on religious significance. According to records, the earliest stupa in China was built in the White Horse Temple in Luoyang (Northern Wei Dynasty) in the 10th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 67). It is said that the White Horse Temple Pagoda is "rebuilt according to the old shape of Tianzhu" (Shu Wei's Interpretation of the Old), which has shown signs of the integration of Chinese and Indian architecture; The pagoda in Futu Temple is "a golden plate on the top and a heavy building on the bottom" (Biography of Tao Qian in the Later Han Dynasty), and the heavy building in China has become the main part of the pagoda.
In the 7th century, Songtsan Gambo unified the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and established the famous Tubo Dynasty. Buddhism was introduced from the Tang Dynasty and Nepal, and Indian Buddhism began to spread in Tibetan areas of China.
From this time on, pagodas began to appear on the snowy plateau. The White Pagoda is built according to the style of stupa brought by Nepal, and its blueprint is the original stupa of ancient India. This kind of stupa has always been used by Tibetan Buddhism, so it is commonly called "Lama Pagoda". Because its surface is generally painted with white ash and the color is white, it is also commonly known as "White Pagoda".