Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple, also known as Jade Buddha Temple, is located in a prosperous area and is a pure land in the downtown area. This temple was built in the eighth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1882). Although it is only 120 years old, it is the same as Longhua Temple and Jing 'an Temple in Shanghai.

The Buddhist temple is famous for two jade buddhas brought back from Myanmar by Master Huigen of Putuo Mountain in the late Qing Dynasty. In fact, Master Huigen invited five jade buddhas of different sizes on his way back to Mount Putuo, and left two of them in Shanghai. Inside the Jade Buddha Building is a sitting statue of Sakyamuni, with a height of1.92m.. The gold foil and inlaid gems on the Buddha's body are dazzling and are the "treasures of the town temple".

In addition, it is worth seeing the 42 regular script chapters of Dong Qichang and the ink engraving of the running script Ni Gu Mei's Enlightenment, the stone carving of the 32-year-old statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva painted by famous painters in Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the stone carving of the eight-phase Taoist statue of Sakyamuni and the stone carving of the 16 arhats painted by Tang Guanxiu.

Architectural model

Jade Buddha Temple inherited the temple style of the Song Dynasty. There are three halls, namely the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall and the Jade Buddha Building, which are arranged on the central axis. There are Guanyin Hall, Bronze Buddha Hall, Sleeping Buddha Hall, Huaidian Hall, Zen Hall and Zhai Hall on the east and west sides, as well as cultural relics room, legal department and vegetarian restaurant, with a total of more than 200 halls.

The first entrance is Tianwang Hall. Erjin main hall is the Hall of the Great Hero, and the Oriental Glass World Pharmacist Buddha is on the east side. On the west is Amitabha in the western paradise. There is a wall sculpture of "Island Guanyin" at the back of the hall. There is a water bottle in the middle, a fish at the foot, and a pair of eyes to see the world. It is a "bodhisattva who is merciful and merciful."

The third entrance is the abbot room. There is a portrait of Dharma, the ancestor of Zen Buddhism, on the front wall, and the Jade Buddha Building is above the abbot's room. In the center of the hall is the jade Buddha statue invited back by Master Huigen. The west side of the temple is located in the Buddhist temple, dedicated to a white jade reclining Buddha.