Bailin Temple (other)
Bailin Temple, also known as Monastery of the Cypress Grove may refer to: * Bailin Temple (Beijing) The Bailin Temple (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 B ... in Dongcheng District, Beijing, near the Yonghe Palace * Bailin Temple (Hebei) in Zhaoxian County, Hebei, famous for its pagoda {{Disambig ...
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Bailin Temple (Beijing)
The Bailin Temple (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 emperor Shun, in an open tract of land in the capital Dadu, to the east of the Temple of Confucius. The temple, the largest of its kind in Dadu, was occupied by the 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 into disrepair in the following decades. It remained so even after 1421, when the Ming Dynasty moved the capital ba ...
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