White Horse Pagoda is located in Baima (White Horse) Village, Danghe Town, 1 km (0.62 mile) west of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. The pagoda has 9 stories, is 12 meters (39.4 feet) in height with an octagonal foundation. Structures resembling up-turned lotus petals surround its central body. The pagoda is of the lama pagoda style of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It is evident from the characters engraved on two stones and on a block in the middle of the second story that the White Horse Pagoda was repaired many times by later generations.

The magnificent Dagoda has 9 storys with a height of 12 meters and a diameter of 7 meters. It was made of adobes with a column inside and coated on the outside with mud and lime. The brick foundation is octagonal with a 3-meter wide face each. The 2-4th stories were shaped with overlapping refraction angles. The 1-5th stories were ringed with a line of papilla spikes. The 6th story resembles an upside-down basin, and the 7th, a Buddhist wheel, while the 8th is hexangular with a wind-bell hanging from each angle. The top story is a spire resembling a string of beads. The Pagoda on the whole is in the lamaist style of the Ming Dynasty.