Yunju Temple

Yunju Temple
Guanyin Hall of the Yunju Temple
Religion
AffiliationBuddhism
Location
CountryChina
Yunju Temple is located in Beijing
Yunju Temple
Location in Beijing municipality
Geographic coordinates39°36′29″N 115°46′04″E / 39.60806°N 115.76778°E / 39.60806; 115.76778

Yunju Temple (simplified Chinese: 云居寺; traditional Chinese: 雲居寺; pinyin: Yúnjū Sì) is a Buddhist temple located in Fangshan District, 70 kilometers (43 mi) southwest of Beijing and contains the world's largest collection of stone Buddhist sutra steles. Yunju Temple also contains one of only two extant woodblocks for the Chinese Buddhist Tripitaka in the world as well as rare copies of printed and manuscript Chinese Buddhist Tripitakas. It also has many historic pagodas dating from the Tang and Liao dynasty.