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