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White Jade Temple is located in Baiyu Township, southwest of the county town. It sits against a rocky mountain covered with shrubs and faces the clear and tranquil Eke River. At an altitude of 3,600 meters, the area enjoys abundant rainfall, a warm climate, open and flat terrain, and lush flowers and grasses. Thirty kilometers north of the temple lies the famous Nianbao Sacred Mountain Scenic Area, and along the way you will pass by the largest Gelug monastery in southeastern Guoluo — Longge Monastery — making this one of the best tourist destinations in the Jiuzhi region. White Jade Temple is a branch of the Baiyu Monastery in Sichuan Province, and it gets its name “Baiyu” from its mother monastery. Built in 1857, it has a history of over 140 years and is a large-scale Nyingma sect monastery with wide influence in the border areas of Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu. After reconstruction, the temple complex includes thousands of structures such as the main scripture hall, stupa hall, preaching courtyard, meditation rooms, and monks’ quarters, covering nearly a thousand acres. The preaching courtyard houses two sets of the Kangyur and Tengyur Tibetan Buddhist canon, printed in the United States and donated by Tibetan expatriates residing in America — both are exquisitely printed. The stupa hall contains two stupas of eminent monks, adorned with gold and silver leaf, among which the larger stupa enshrines a sacred tooth relic, considered extremely precious and treated as a treasure of the temple. The temple also houses nearly ten thousand Buddha statues and figures made of gold, silver, and other materials. The stupa hall further displays a stone footprint of the previous incarnation of Baiyu Lazi, regarded as a rare gem by the monastery. Additionally, a magnificent Fai Hall has been newly constructed. As a result, the temple was designated as a prefectural-level cultural relics protection unit in 1994. Major annual Buddhist events at the temple include the “Three Bodies of the Tathagata” meditation retreat held from the eighth day of the first lunar month to the eighth day of the second lunar month, and the 45-day "Summer Retreat" held in the eighth month, attracting tens of thousands of monks and devotees who come to worship the Buddha statues and offer hada scarves — creating a truly spectacular scene.

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White Jade Temple

White Jade Temple is located in Baiyu Township, southwest of the county town. It sits against a rocky mountain covered with shrubs and faces the clear and tranquil Eke River. At an altitude of 3,600 meters, the area enjoys abundant rainfall, a warm climate, open and flat terrain, and lush flowers and grasses. Thirty kilometers north of the temple lies the famous Nianbao Sacred Mountain Scenic Area, and along the way you will pass by the largest Gelug monastery in southeastern Guoluo — Longge Monastery — making this one of the best tourist destinations in the Jiuzhi region. White Jade Temple is a branch of the Baiyu Monastery in Sichuan Province, and it gets its name “Baiyu” from its mother monastery. Built in 1857, it has a history of over 140 years and is a large-scale Nyingma sect monastery with wide influence in the border areas of Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu. After reconstruction, the temple complex includes thousands of structures such as the main scripture hall, stupa hall, preaching courtyard, meditation rooms, and monks’ quarters, covering nearly a thousand acres. The preaching courtyard houses two sets of the Kangyur and Tengyur Tibetan Buddhist canon, printed in the United States and donated by Tibetan expatriates residing in America — both are exquisitely printed. The stupa hall contains two stupas of eminent monks, adorned with gold and silver leaf, among which the larger stupa enshrines a sacred tooth relic, considered extremely precious and treated as a treasure of the temple. The temple also houses nearly ten thousand Buddha statues and figures made of gold, silver, and other materials. The stupa hall further displays a stone footprint of the previous incarnation of Baiyu Lazi, regarded as a rare gem by the monastery. Additionally, a magnificent Fai Hall has been newly constructed. As a result, the temple was designated as a prefectural-level cultural relics protection unit in 1994. Major annual Buddhist events at the temple include the “Three Bodies of the Tathagata” meditation retreat held from the eighth day of the first lunar month to the eighth day of the second lunar month, and the 45-day "Summer Retreat" held in the eighth month, attracting tens of thousands of monks and devotees who come to worship the Buddha statues and offer hada scarves — creating a truly spectacular scene.