The Pule Temple is one of Eight Outer Temples in Chengde City. The place, where the Pule Temple is located, used to be a flat ground. People could see mountains around the Mountain Resort. Following the advice of a Tibetan Living Buddha, Emperor Qianlong built the temple in 1766. The temple is made up of the front hall, side halls and the massacre city. The front hall, called the Zongyin Hall, houses Buddha of Infinite Longevity and other Trikala Buddhas with warrior attendants standing on both sides of each Buddha. There is an altar in the back, with a height of 35.5 meters. It is divided into 3 layers. The 1^st and 2^nd layers are square stone platforms. There are 3 rooms in the 1^st layer and 72 hallways around it. There are 4 doors in four different directions in the 2^nd layer. There are 8 Lama pagodas in four corners and four directions. The pagodas in the four corners are yellow and four pagodas in four directions are black, green, purple and white, respectively. The stone fences around the 3^rd layer are carved with dragon-and-cloud patterns. The Xuguang Pavilion in the middle of the 3^rd 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 of 4 layers in the hall is extremely exquisite. There are inner and outer circles in the 1^st and 2^nd layers. Pictures of 6-character incantation are carved on the outer circle of the 1st layer and a gilding cloud pattern made of wood appears in the inner circle. A gilding dragon pattern appears in the outer circle of the 2^nd layer, and a gilding peacock pattern appears on the inner circle. Lotus pattern is carved on the 3^rd layer. A huge dragon with tremendous momentum, looking down, pearl in its mouth and clouds around it appears in the 4^th layer. The sunk panel in the Xuguang Pavilion is one of the most exquisite sunk panels of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

No Lamaists live in the temple at peacetime. Lamaists from other temples will get together to chant scriptures on the 1^st and 15^th of the first lunar month.