Yonghe Temple
Tibetan Buddhist temple and monastery in Beijing, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Yonghe Temple (Chinese: 雍和宮, "Palace of Peace and Harmony"), also known as the Yonghe Lamasery, or popularly as the Lama Temple, is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. The building and artwork of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles. This building is one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in China proper. The current abbot is Lama Hu Xuefeng.[1] Yonghe Temple was the highest Buddhist temple in the country during the middle and late Qing dynasty.[2]
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雍和宮 | |
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Affiliation | Buddhism |
Sect | Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism |
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Location | Dongcheng District, Beijing, China |
Geographic coordinates | 39°56′49″N 116°24′40″E |
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Style | Chinese architecture |
Founder | Yongzheng Emperor |
Date established | 1694 |
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Quick Facts Chinese name, Traditional Chinese ...
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Traditional Chinese | 雍和宮 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 雍和宫 | ||||||||||
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Tibetan | དགའ་ལྡན་བྱིན་ཆགས་གླིང་ | ||||||||||
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Mongolian Cyrillic | Найралт Найрамдyy Сүм | ||||||||||
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Manchu script | ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠰᡠᠨ ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᡴᠠ ᡤᡠᠩ | ||||||||||
Romanization | hūwaliyasun hūwaliyaka gung | ||||||||||
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