It was opened on 5 October 1996 in the presence of more than 30,000 people and is the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery to be built in the region since its beginning as an autonomous oblast in 1920.

Geden Sheddup Choikorling is a Tibetan name, translated as "A Holy Abode for Theory and Practice of the School of Gelugpa".

[6] The ceremony of consecrating of the khurul — (Russian: раднэ, romanized: radne) — was performed by the 14th Dalai Lama during his third visit to Kalmykia on 1 December 2004.

[8] At the entrance to the temple, there are prayer wheels (Kalmyk: кюрдэ, romanized: kyurde) that rotate clockwise when entering and exiting.

The hair being put up into a Ushnisha bun, elongated earlobes, and a Urna (in the form of a large precious stone) are the features of the Enlightened One.

To the left and right of the Buddha statue, there are panels with images of deities: on the left — deities that give longevity — the red Amitayus, White Tara and Usnisavijaya; on the right — the four-armed Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, Vajrapani, the guardian of faith, the patron of the Mongolian peoples, and Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom.

In the depths of the altar part of the temple, there are statues of the main deities of the Buddhist pantheon: the Taras — the merciful helpers of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, the figures of the guardians of faith.