Puning Temple was built in 1755, after the Qing campaigns against the Dzungars, and its name means universal peace. The front halls follow a Chinese monastery plan; behind them the Mahayana Hall rises in a Tibetan-influenced form to hold a standing wooden Guanyin, one of the largest of its kind. The temple is one of the eight outer temples at Chengde and remains an active Buddhist site.
Puning was finished in 1759, four years after Qing armies defeated the Dzungars. Its halls combine Chinese and Tibetan plans, and its main pavilion holds a gilded wooden Avalokiteshvara assembled from five kinds of timber, 110 tonnes in weight and more than twenty metres high.