The gate-passing pagoda is located in the Kumbum Monastery. It was built in the 50th year of Emperor Kangxi’s reign in the Qing Dynasty (1711). It is made of bricks and has carved brick brackets with six-character mantras carved in Tibetan: Om, Mani, Ni, Ba, Mi, Hum (sound). According to legend, this is where Mother Tsongkhapa kept her accounting room. Qinghai Kumbum Monastery Gate Pagoda is located outside Kumbum Monastery in Huangzhong County, Xining City, Qinghai Province. The tower is a brick structure, square, with a bowl-shaped throne and a height of about 12 meters. The entire pagoda is carved with dougongs, and the dougongs are engraved with the six-character mantra of the Buddhist mantra in Tibetan: Om, Mah, Ni, Ba, Mi, and Hum. There is a hole under the pagoda base for pedestrians to enter and exit the Ta’er Temple, hence its name. Before this pagoda was opened to the public in the 1980s, it was the only way to enter the Kumbum Monastery.