Yonghe Temple

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Hall of Infinite Happiness (Wanfuge)

Lama Temple (Yonghegong) - interior view of one of the rooms

Forecourt of the "Yonghegong Hall"

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : ༄ ༅ ༎ དགའ་ ལྡན་ བྱིན་ ཆགས་ གླིང །
Wylie transliteration : dga 'ldan byin chags gling
Official transcription of the PRCh : Gandain Qinqagling
THDL transcription : Ganden Jinchakling
Chinese name
Traditional : 雍和宮
Simplified : 雍和宫
Pinyin : Yōnghégōng

The Yonghe Temple ( Chinese  雍和宫 , Pinyin Yōnghégōng , literally: Palace of Peace and Harmony) in Beijing is the former residence of Prince Yinzhen , which was converted into a Lamaist temple in 1744 under Emperor Qianlong in honor of his father Hence colloquially known as the Lama Temple .

meaning

It is one of the largest Lamaist temples outside of Tibet and is considered the best restored temple complex in Beijing. The facility, oriented in north-south direction, consists of an ornamental garden, several inner courtyards and various halls. The highlight is the Hall of Infinite Happiness ( Chin.萬福 閣 / 万福 阁Pinyin Wànfúgé), in which there is an 18-meter-high statue of Buddha Maitreya carved from a single sandalwood tree . The trunk of the original tree is 26 m high, 8 m of it is set in depth. This statue was a gift from Kelsang Gyatsho , the 7th  Dalai Lama , to Emperor Qianlong.

literature

• Ferdinand Lessing and Gösta Montell : Yung-Ho-Kung, an Iconography of the Lamaist Cathedral in Beijing: With Notes on Lamaist Mythology and Cult. In: Reports from Scientific Expedition to the North-western Provinces of China under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin. The Sino-Swedish Expedition. Publ. 18. Part VIII. Ethnography. 1, Stockholm 1942.
• Jin Liang ed .: A Brief History of Yonghegong Lamasery, China Tibetology Publishing House, Beijing, November 1994. ISBN 7-80057-119-X . Chinese Publications in Tibetan Studies Series. Collated by Niu Ligeng.

Web links

Commons : Yonghe Temple  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Yonghe Lamasery - English

Footnotes

1. ↑ Chén Guānshèng 陈观胜, Ān Cáidàn 安 才 旦 (Ed.): Rgya dbyin bod gsum shan sbyar gyi bod skad kyi mi ming dang sa ming gter mdzod ༄ ༅ ༎ རྒྱ་ དབྱིན་ བོད་ གསུམ་ ཤན་ སྦྱར་ གྱི་ བོད ་ སྐད་ ཀྱི་ མི་ མིང་ དང་ དང་ ས་ མིང་ གཏེར ། / Chángjiàn Zàngyǔ rénmíng dìmíng cídiǎn常见 藏语 人名 地名 词典. Beijing, Wàiwén chūbǎnshè 外文 出版社 2004.

Coordinates: 39 ° 56 ′ 49 ″  N , 116 ° 24 ′ 40 ″  E