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Located in the Tianzhu Township in the northwest corner of Tianzhu County, it has beautiful mountains and rivers, magnificent scenery and pleasant climate. Tiantian Temple is called "Chediantang Zhaxi Dajilang" in Tibetan, which means Pagoda Beach is auspicious and prosperous, and the Chinese translation is "Chaotian", also known as Tiantian Temple. It was built more than 800 years earlier than Labrang Monastery. During the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, Danma Cicheng Gyatso of Qinghai Huzhu Ganchan Monastery changed Heaven Monastery to Gelug Monastery. In the fourth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (AD 1647), at the request of Danma Cicheng Gyatso and the local tribes such as Moko, Duocang, Jiadou, etc., the fourth emperor of Dongke Temple in Huangyuan, Qinghai, lived in Gyatso Hutuktu for expansion. He joined the Temple of Heaven and served as the owner of the temple. There are more than 1,000 monks in the Temple of Heaven, commonly known as "Eight Hundred Monks in Heaven". Its architectural layout is reasonable, grand and solemn, and has a strong Tibetan style. The whole monastery covers an area of 1,500 mu and has more than 2,000 monks' houses and more than 4,000 rooms. The scripture hall includes the Great Scripture Hall, the Thousand Buddha Hall, the Tantric Hall, the Bodhisattva Hall, the Buddha Mother Hall, the Lion Body Buddha Mother Hall, the Manjusri Hall, the Tuzhu Hall, the Sakyamuni Hall, and the Dragon King Hall.