Yonghe Temple

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Yonghe Temple
雍和宮
Religion
Affiliation	Buddhism
Sect	Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism
Location
Location	Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
Shown within Beijing
Geographic coordinates	39°56′49″N 116°24′40″E / 39.94694°N 116.41111°E / 39.94694; 116.41111
Architecture
Style	Chinese architecture
Founder	Yongzheng Emperor
Date established	1694

Yonghe Temple
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	雍和宮
Simplified Chinese	雍和宫
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yōnghé gōng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping jung1 wo4 gung1
Tibetan name
Tibetan	དགའ་ལྡན་བྱིན་ཆགས་གླིང་
Transcriptions Wylie dga' ldan byin chags gling
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Найралт Найрамдyy Сүм
Transcriptions SASM/GNC nairalt nairamduu suum
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠰᡠᠨ ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᡴᠠ ᡤᡠᠩ
Romanization	hūwaliyasun hūwaliyaka gung

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]