Chengde Pule Temple
As one of the Eight Out Temples of Chengde, Pule Temple is in a hummock about 1 kms to the east of Summer Resort. The place where the Pule Temple is located used to be a flat ground. People could see mountains around the Summer Resort.
Picking up the advice of a Tibetan Living Buddha, Emperor Qianlong built the temple in 1766. “Pule” means happy for all the people. The temple is made up of four parts including the Front Hall, the Side Halls on the right and left, and the massacre city, housing Buddha of Infinite Longevity and King Kong Buddha are sacrificed in side halls.
In the back there is a 35.5 meter high altar, divided into 3 layers. The 1st and 2nd floor are square stone platforms. The 1st floor has 3 rooms and surrounded by 72 hallways. In the 2nd floor has 8 Lama Towers in four corners and four directions. The towers in the corners are black, while the towers in four directions are black, blue, purple, and white.
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The Xuguang Pavilion in the middle of the 3rd layer is 23 meters high with a diameter of 21.68 meters. The multi-eaved roof is covered with glazed tiles, similar with that of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest in the Heaven Temple, Beijing.
The sunk panel in the hall is extremely exquisite. It is decorated with pictures of 6-character incantation, a gilding carved cloud pattern, a gilding carved peacock pattern, carved lotus pattern and a huge dragon looking down pearl in its mouth together with clouds around it. The sunk panel is one of the most exquisite in Ming Dynasty.
No Lamaists live in the temple on normal, unless on the 1st and 5th of the first lunar month Lamaists from other temples will get together to chant scriptures.
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