Temple of the Azure Clouds

Entrance to the Temple of Azure Clouds

Arhats Hall ( Luohan tang )

Diamond Throne Pagoda ( Jingang baozuo ta )

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall ( Sun Zhongshan jiniantang )

The Temple of Azure Clouds ( Chinese 碧云寺 , Pinyin Bìyún Sì , English Temple of Azure Clouds ) is a Buddhist temple monastery in the eastern part of the Beijing West Mountains (Xīshān 西山) just outside the north gate of the Fragrance Mountain Park (Xiangshan Gongyuan 香山公园) in district Haidian , a northwestern suburb of Beijing , China , about 20 km from the city center.

Names

Erich Haenisch calls the complex “Monastery of the Emerald Clouds”. In Manchurian it is called niowanggiyan tugingge juktehen ᠨᡳᠣᠸᠠᠩᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ
ᡨᡠᡤᡳᠩᡤᡝ
ᠵᡠᠭᡨᡝᡥᡝᠨ, in Mongolian köke egületü süm-e ᠬᠦᠬᠡ
ᠡᠭᠦᠯᠡᠲᠦ
ᠰᠦᠮ᠎ᠡand in Tibetan sprin sngon can lha khang སྤྲིན་ སྔོན་ ཅན་ ལྷ་ཁང་.

history

It was built in the 14th century, in 1331 during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), and was expanded in 1748 .

The temple has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-203) since 2001 .

literature

Erich Haenisch: The four-language founding inscription of the Pi-yün-szĕ monastery near Beijing. In: Ostasiatische Zeitschrift , New Series 1 (1924), pp. 1–16.

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Footnotes

↑ Which in Chinese is also 香山碧云寺 Xiāngshān Bìyún Sì (Fragrant Hills Temple of Azure Clouds). Other German names include the Temple of the Azure Clouds or the Baiyun Si Temple Monastery .

39.995833333333 116.18527777778Coordinates: 39 ° 59 ′ 45 ″ N , 116 ° 11 ′ 7 ″ E

[1] Which in Chinese is also 香山碧云寺 Xiāngshān Bìyún Sì (Fragrant Hills Temple of Azure Clouds). Other German names include the Temple of the Azure Clouds or the Baiyun Si Temple Monastery .