Jing'an Temple
Gilded-roof Buddhist temple complex on a busy shopping street, with a massive white jade Buddha.
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This guide to Jing'an Temple in Shanghai traces roughly seventeen centuries of history on one of the city's busiest shopping streets, from its founding in the Three Kingdoms period through a Song-dynasty flood, and into the twentieth century, when the grounds became a plastics factory during the Cultural Revolution and then burned in a 1972 fire. Reconstruction did not begin until the 1980s, and the temple reopened to the public in 1990. Somewhere inside sits a Buddha carved from a single block of white Burmese jade, nearly four meters tall. Step into the Jade Buddha Hall to see it up close.
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