Bodhi Salvation Temple

Bodhi Salvation Temple

Bodhi Salvation Temple is a cultural tourism attraction.

Bodhi Salvation Temple

Bodhi Salvation Temple is located deep in the Kubuqi Desert of Hangjin Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. After years of damage from wars and natural disasters, this temple, originally built during the Ming Dynasty, had been reduced to just a small shrine by 1987. In 1989, the government of Hangjin Banner decided to rebuild Bodhi Salvation Temple. The temple expansion included the B-Bargin Great Stupa, Small Stupa, Sugeqing Hall, Kanjur Hall, 0 Hall, the Four Heavenly Kings Hall, as well as some other residential buildings.

Jiamuyang Tubdan, the renowned abbot of Beijing's Lama Temple, comes from Bodhi Salvation Temple. Currently serving as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a standing committee member of the Beijing Municipal CPPCC, and vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, Tubdan became a monk at Bodhi Salvation Temple at the age of 7. At 18, he went to Qinghai’s Ta’er Monastery for further studies and later learned Mandarin in Hohhot. In 1981, he was recommended to teach at Beijing’s Lama Temple. By then, he had already mastered Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese languages and scripts, and could give sermons in all three.

Jiamuyang Tubdan is highly knowledgeable, well-versed in scriptures, and kind-hearted. In 1987, he became the deputy abbot of Lama Temple, and in 1993, he was appointed as the abbot, becoming a leading master of Tibetan Buddhism.