Dazhao Temple, Buddhist monastery in Hohhot, China.

Dazhao Temple, also called Ih Juu or the Silver Buddha Temple, is a Gelugpa monastery in Hohhot's Yuquan District. Its main hall combines Chinese and Tibetan forms: a double-storey front hall, a sutra hall and a Buddha hall enshrining a 2.55-metre silver Sakyamuni. The grounds cover over 30,000 square metres, with a memorial shrine to the Kangxi Emperor.

The monastery was founded in 1557 and was the first Gelugpa Buddhist monastery in Inner Mongolia. In 1586, the third Dalai Lama came to the site in person, a visit that strengthened its standing as a leading center of Tibetan Buddhism in the region.

The temple's Mongolian name, Ih Juu, means "Great Temple"; locals also call it the Silver Buddha Temple after its central statue. Each year on the 15th and 16th of the first lunar month and on the 15th of the sixth lunar month, monks hold the Sunning the Buddha festival, unrolling a 7-metre by 5-metre painting of Maitreya in front of the Buddha Hall. The temple also performs the Dolma ritual, burning a dough effigy to expel misfortune.

The temple is in central Hohhot and easy to reach on foot from many parts of the city. Going early in the morning tends to mean fewer visitors around, which makes it easier to move through the halls and courtyards without feeling pressed.

Inside the main hall stands a Buddha statue made entirely of silver by Nepalese craftsmen, which is unusual even among major Buddhist sites in China. The choice of Nepalese artisans points to the long-distance connections this monastery maintained with other parts of the Buddhist world.