13 Facts About Yonghe Temple

Yonghe Temple, 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.

Yonghe Temple, because Emperor Qianlong was born here, there were two emperors in Yonghe Temple.

Yonghe Temple is the highest Buddhist temple in the country in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

Subsequently, the monastery became a residence for large numbers of Tibetan Buddhist monks from Mongolia and Tibet, and so the Yonghe Temple Lamasery became the national centre of Lama administration.

Since 1792, with the foundation of the Golden Urn, the Yonghe Temple became a place for the Manchu government to exert control over the Tibetan and Mongolian lama reincarnations.

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Yonghe Temple was the site of an armed revolt against the Chinese Nationalist government in 1929.

In terms of administration, the Yonghe Temple is treated as an imperial Tibetan Buddhist temple directly under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty.

The religious affair of the Yonghe Temple is handled by a Khenpo lama (??????????) as the head of the monastery.

Yonghe Temple is arranged along a north–south central axis, which has a length of 480 metres, and covers an area of 66,400 square meters.

The statue is one of three artworks in the Yonghe Temple which were included in the Guinness Book of Records in 1993.

Yonghe Temple contains two steles built during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.

The first record of the practice of cham dance in Yonghe Temple was first found in 1746, at a banquet hosted by the Qianlong emperor in hosting a Dzunggar envoy.

Yonghe Temple is located in Beijing's Dongcheng District, near the northeastern corner of the Second Ring Road.