The White Horse Dagoba is located in Baima (White Horse) Village, Danghe Town, 1 km (0.62 mile) west of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. The magnificent dagoba has 9 storeys, is 12 m (39.4 ft) in height with an octagonal foundation. It was made of adobe 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 2nd-4th storeys are shaped with overlapping refraction angles. The 1st-5th storeys are ringed with a line of papilla spikes. The 6th storey 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 storey is a spire resembling a string of beads. Structures resembling up-turned lotus petals surround its central body. On each of the angles of its hexagonal roof hang bells that chime in a breeze.

The Pagoda overall is in the lamaist style of the Ming Dynasty. It is evident from the characters engraved on two stones and on a block in the middle of the second storey that the White Horse Dagoba was repaired many times by later generations.

Even after 1,000 years, the White Horse Dagoba, set off by surrounding green trees and cyan tiles, is still straight and majestic, a treasure of Dunhuang City.