Forbidden City are about five kilometers apart, about an hour's walk away. Transport Lines 2 and 5 of the Beijing Subway both stop at Yonghegong Lama Temple station, as do a number of city buses. Gallery Further reading Lessing, Ferdinand, and Gösta Montell. Yung-Ho-Kung, an Iconography of the Lamaist Cathedral in Peking: With Notes on Lamaist Mythology and Cult. Stockholm: 1942. References Lonely Planet Beijing 10th Edition (Oakland, CA: Lonely Planet Publications, 2007), 134. External links Official Yonghe Temple website— Beijingtrip.com: Yonghe Lama Temple GoogleMaps: Satellite photo of the Yonghe Temple — centered on the Hall of Everlasting Protection. Tibet.cn: "Beijing Lama Temple donates Buddha statue to Mongolia" — Tibetan Buddhist temples in Beijing Gelug monasteries and temples Tibetan Buddhist temples Dongcheng District, Beijing Qing dynasty architecture Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Beijing Houses completed in 1694 1694 establishments in China Religious organizations established in 1722 18th-century Buddhist temples 1720s establishments in China Tibetan Buddhism in Asia Maitreya