Yonghe Temple

The Yonghe Temple is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China.
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  • Opening hours: 9:00 AM—4:00 PM
  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: tibetan lama temple in Beijing
  • Also known as: “Lama Temple”, “Yonghe Gong”, “Yōnghé gōng”, “YongHe Lama Temple”, “Yonghe Lamasery”, “Yonghe Palace”, “Yonghegong”, and “Yonghegong Lama Temple”
  • Address: 北京

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Beijing Temple of Confucius and Beijing Guozijian.

Place of worship
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is the second-largest Confucian temple in , after in Confucius's hometown of . is situated 240 metres west of Yonghe Temple.

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The , also known as the Imperial Academy or College, was China's national university during the late Yuan, late Ming, and Qing dynasties, and the last guozijian of China. is situated 340 metres west of Yonghe Temple.

Buddhist temple
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The (Chinese: 柏林寺; pinyin: Bǎilín Sì; lit. 'Monastery of the Cypress Grove' is a 14th-century Tibetan Buddhist temple and monastery located in , . is situated 250 metres southeast of Yonghe Temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dongzhimen and Ditan and Andingmen.

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are areas in Dongcheng District in , . They form the northernmost part of Dongcheng, northeast of the Forbidden City. Dongzhimen is one of Beijing's major commercial precincts.

Suburb
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Subdistrict is a subdistrict in the northwestern part of Dongcheng District, , . It contains 9 communities, covers 1.74 square kilometers of land, and has a population of 32,172 by the year 2020.

Suburb
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Subdistrict is a subdistrict in the northern part of Dongcheng District, , . The Yonghe Temple is located here. The subdistrict consists of 10 communities.

Yonghe Temple

Latitude
39.94562° or 39° 56′ 44″ north
Longitude
116.411° or 116° 24′ 40″ east
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Open location code
8PFRWCW6+6C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24825312
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
8384655
Wiki­data ID
Q692723
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Wu Chinese—“Yonghe Temple” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Յունխեգուն”
  • Catalan: “Temple Yonghe”
  • Catalan: “Yonghe Gong”
  • Catalan: “Yonghegong”
  • Chinese: “Yōnghé Gōng”
  • Chinese: “雍和宫”
  • Chinese: “雍和宮”
  • Dutch: “Yonghe Gong”
  • Dutch: “Yonghegong”
  • Dutch: “Yonghetempel”
  • Esperanto: “Lamaejo Jonghegong”
  • Finnish: “Lamatemppeli”
  • French: “temple de Yonghe”
  • French: “Temple de Yonghe”
  • French: “Temple des Lamas”
  • French: “Yonghe Gong”
  • French: “Yonghegong”
  • German: “Yonghe Gong”
  • German: “Yonghe-Tempel”
  • German: “Yonghegong”
  • Hebrew: “מקדש יונגחה”
  • Hungarian: “Jungho templom”
  • Indonesian: “Kuil Yonghe”
  • Italian: “Tempio dei Lama”
  • Italian: “Yonghe Gong”
  • Italian: “Yonghegong”
  • Japanese: “雍和宮”
  • Javanese: “Kuil Lama”
  • Korean: “옹화궁”
  • Manchu: “ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠰᡠᠨ ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᡴᠠ ᡤᡠᠩ”
  • Manchu: “ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠰᡠᠨ ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᡴᠠ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠩ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yonghetempelet”
  • Norwegian: “Yonghetempelet”
  • Polish: “Świątynia Harmonii i Pokoju”
  • Polish: “Yonghe Gong”
  • Polish: “Yonghegong”
  • Portuguese: “Yonghe Gong”
  • Portuguese: “Yonghegong”
  • Russian: “Юнхэгун”
  • Spanish: “Templo de los Lama”
  • Spanish: “Templo de Yonghe”
  • Spanish: “Yonghe Gong”
  • Spanish: “Yonghegong”
  • Swedish: “Lamatemplet”
  • Swedish: “Yonghegong”
  • Thai: “วัดยงเหอ”
  • Thai: “วัดลามะ”
  • Tibetan: “གཡུང་ཧྭ་དགོན་དགའ་ལྡན་བྱིན་ཆགས་གླིང་ཆོས་སྡེ།”
  • Tibetan: “གཡུང་ཧྭ་དགོན།”
  • Turkish: “Lama Tapınağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Юнхегун”
  • Urdu: “یونگہی مندر”
  • Vietnamese: “Ung Hòa Cung”
  • Wu Chinese: “雍和宫”

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