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Tangse is the Manchu name for a shamanic shrine or altar to the spirits.

The tangse was destroyed in 1900 by foreign powers in the aftermath of the Boxer Uprising as part of reprisals for the two-month siege of the international Legation Quarter. The shrine was rebuilt inside the palace in 1901 and its former site was used to build the Italian legation. Historian Mark Elliott notes that in today's Beijing, the tangse would have been located on East Chang'an Avenue, "directly opposite the 'modern' wing of the Beijing Hotel."