Bailin Temple (other)
Bailin Temple, also known as Monastery of the Cypress Grove may refer to: * Bailin Temple (Beijing) in Dongcheng District, Beijing, near the Yonghe Palace * Pagoda of Bailin Temple, Bailin Temple (Hebei) in Zhaoxian County, Hebei, famous for its pagoda {{Disambig ...
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Bailin Temple (Beijing)
The Bailin Temple (Chinese language, Chinese: 柏林寺; pinyin: Bǎilín Sì), also known as the "Monastery of the Cypress Grove", is a 14th-century Tibetan Buddhist temple and monastery located in Beijing, China. History Imperial era Construction of the Bailin Temple started in 1347, during the reign of Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Ukhaantu Khan, emperor Shun, in an open tract of land in the capital Khanbaliq, Dadu, to the east of the Beijing Temple of Confucius, Temple of Confucius. The temple, the largest of its kind in Dadu, was occupied by the Sakya (Tibetan Buddhist school), Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, which enjoyed great power under the Mongol emperors. The fortunes of the temple, though, were short-lived: in 1355 the Sakya were overthrown in Tibet by local warlords, and the Yuan Dynasty suffered the same fate 13 years later in 1368, when Dadu was taken by a rebel army and pillaged. Although the structure of the Bailin Temple mostly survived the event, the monastery fell ...
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