Lama Temple (Yonghegong), Beijing

It was a pleasure to come to such a spiritual place like this one. The colors are very rich and traditional. I truly enjoyed myself.

i visited in 2008,architecture is excellent, must visit place in beijing

China is the first country I have visited without a religion .. it is a strange feeling I can not explain so amongst this to find a temple was like a breath of fresh air so had to visit you get to pray and light incense sticks . The temple is also housing a very tall buddha statue as you can see in pictures I'm not very religious but it felt good just outside the temple there is a good shot to pick up things to bring back

The Yonghe Temple 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.

Outside of Tibet this is probably one of the most important of the Tibetan Buddhist temples. It is well worth seen and is easily access via the subway. Entrance price is not very expensive. Make sure you pick up the incense on your way in which they give you for free. Then you will have multiple opportunities to join the people who are burning incense at the various devotional sites in the temple. The giant carved sandalwood Buddhist statue is really amazing!