The origin of the Lama Temple

The original site of the Lama Temple was the official residence of the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty. In the thirty-third year of Kangxi (1694), it was first built as Qin Yong Palace. After Yongzheng acceded to the throne, half of it was changed to the upper house of the Yellow Sect, and the other half was used as a palace and burned. So in the third year of Yongzheng (1725), the upper house was changed into a palace, which was called the "Lama Temple".

In the 13th year of Yongzheng (1735), Yong Zhengdi stopped here, and the green glazed tiles in the main halls of the palace were replaced by yellow glazed tiles.

After nine years of Qianlong (1744), the Lama Temple was transformed into a formal Tibetan Buddhist temple and became the center of the Qing government in charge of Tibetan Buddhist affairs throughout the country.

After liberation, the government carried out comprehensive renovation in 1950, 1952 and 1979, and announced it as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 196 1. 198 1 year.

1957 10 The Beijing Municipal People's Committee announced the first batch of 39 cultural relics protection units in Beijing, including the Lama Temple.

196 1 in March, the Lama Temple was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.

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As far as administration is concerned, the Qing Dynasty had a very high management organization in the Lama Temple at that time, that is, the "Zhongzheng Hall manages the Lama's chanting place", which was the highest directly affiliated organization in the Qing Dynasty to manage the national Mongolian and Tibetan affairs. Officials called it the "Minister of Lama Temple Affairs", and there was only one, usually selected from the princes. Under it, there is the "Minister of East Courtyard Affairs of Yonghe Palace", the number of which is uncertain, generally selected from princes and first-and second-class civil and military officials.

At that time, the Qing government set up three rooms in Yonghe Palace: the copywriting room, the altar room and the building room. They are responsible for managing the communication of the Lama Temple, chanting by monks and creating Buddha statues. Among them, the "copy room" consists of pen paste (secretary) and Sura pen paste (deputy secretary), which is responsible for the specific work of official document exchange; Under the "altar room", there are deputy governors, chief eunuchs and eunuch lamas, who are responsible for chanting scriptures; In fact, the building is a large-scale factory for manufacturing Buddha statues in the Lama Temple in the Qing Dynasty.

Besides the person in charge, there are 40 workers in the factory. These workers are divided into nine groups, who are engaged in the production of different kinds of Buddha statues, such as bronze, gold plating, copper casting, jade carving, tooth carving, painting, gold loading, color embroidery and silk reeling. The Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty was responsible for the safety of the Lama Temple.

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