Wuta Temple (the only Mandala Temple in Inner Mongolia) spent the Year of the Tiger in a foreign land in the old Ming Dynasty

#这就是年味儿 #

Cideng Temple is a subordinate temple of Xiaozhao, commonly known as "Five Pagoda Temple", is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, in 1732 AD (Yongzheng Decade) the Qing court gave the name of Cideng Temple as a subordinate temple of Xiaozhao, commonly known as "Five Pagoda Temple", is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, in 1732 AD (Yongzheng Decade) Qing court gave the name Cideng Temple. According to documentary records and archaeological excavations, the temple originally had a triple courtyard, and its overall layout was the Mandala Mandala City of the Vajrayogini, and the temple was large in scale and unique in layout. In the northernmost part of the temple, there is the Vajrapani Relic Pagoda, which is a national key cultural relics protection unit, and the wall behind the pagoda is embedded with six reincarnation charts carved in stone, the distribution map of Mount Meru and the Astronomical Map of Mongolian Stone Carving, of which the Mongolian Stone Carved Astronomical Map is the only stone carved astronomical map in the world marked in Mongolian, which has high accuracy and great scientific research value. In order to let visitors better understand the historical development of Tibetan Buddhism in Hohhot, the courtyard held the "Hohhot Summoning Temple Cultural Exhibition". Cideng Monastery is the only mandala monastery in Inner Mongolia and has high scientific value for the study of Tibetan Buddhism.

Xiaozhao Arch

Vajrapani Pagoda

Five Pagoda Temple

Stone lions left and right in front of the door