Dorong Hui Zong Temple

Author: Ren Yuehai
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: An introduction and exploration of the Hui Zong Temple in Inner Mongolia. Hui Zong Temple is a sacred hall of Tibetan Buddhism on the Mongolian Plateau, holding significant cultural importance from history to the present day. The rise and fall of Hui Zong Temple are closely intertwined with the politics, economy, and culture of the Mongolian region during the Qing Dynasty. It serves as a microcosm of the Qing Dynasty's use of Lamaism to govern the Mongolian Plateau after the Kangxi and Yongzheng reigns. The glory and decline it has experienced form a vivid historical panorama of the rise and fall of Tibetan Buddhism in Qing-era Mongolia. Let us enter Hui Zong Temple together and revisit its construction over nearly half a century, peer into its glorious heyday, and reflect on the tragic destruction it suffered.