Anyuan Temple is commonly referred to as “Ili Temple”, and is one of the famous Eight Outer Temples. It was built in 1764, and was imitation of Guerzha Temple in the north bank of the Ili River, Xinjiang Autonomous Region Silk Road tours. Guerzha Temple was the largest-sized temple in Khalkha District, but it was fired by ethnic separatists. After putting down the rebellion, meritorious Dashidava Tribe all was moved to Rehe Province (it has been repealed in 1955, nowadays in Hebei Province.). Taking account of providing a Buddhist place for Dashidava Tribe, the Emperor Qianlong decreed to build a temple named Anyuan Temple.

Layout of Anyuan Temple

Anyuan Temple has an area of 26,000?. Architectures and its scale in Anyuan Temple are not taller and less grandiose than other temples, but it completely breaks traditional architecture layout with sitting in the north and facing to the south. The temple China travel dealsis divided into three courtyards.

Temple gate

On the upper of arch gate hangs a tablet with characters of Temple gate in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan, which was written by the emperor Qianlong (1711-1799 A.D.) in Qing Dynasty.

Attached halls in the south and north

Entering into the gate, a wide space is in front of you and there are ten attached halls on each side in the south and north. Now they are worked as the showrooms. Here keeps the pedigree of Dashidava tribe and the roadmap of Dashidava tribe to move to the Rehe Province top 10 China tour packages.

The first and second courtyards are separated by a gate with the combination of Han and Tibet architecture style. The last courtyard is composed of 70 single-layer houses around, which is regular corridor style in Tibetan Buddhism temples.

Pudu Hall

“Pudu Hall” is the main building in Anyuan Temple, and it is a three-layer attic with 27 meters high. Because it is square-shaped, it also has another name “Square Pavilion”. There is a tablet with characters of Pudu Hall in Chinese，Manchu，Mongolian and Tibetan hanging under the eave written by the emperor Qianlong. Unlike most imperial temples with roof covered by yellow glaze tiles, the top roof of Pudu Hall is covered by black and ocher glaze tiles, which is a big feature.

The ground floor enshrines the wooden statue of Green Tara standing thoughtfully on the lotus base. Green Tara is most common Goddess in Tibetan Buddhism. It is said that Green Tara was the reincarnation of Goddess of Mercy, and enshrining it could get rid of fears.

The second floor has statues of Sukhavati Trinity and six Bodhisattvas. The walls in three layers are covered by murals that describe the Buddhist stories originated from Qing Dynasty.

The statue of Yamantaka Vajrabhairava is on the third floor. It has nine bull’s heads, 34 arms and 16 legs, with kinds of ritual implement in hands and necklace made of skeleton hanging on its neck, and the surrendered devils are treaded under its feet, which looks very awful.

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