Located on the road to Anyuan from Shanghai, was built on Jade Buddha Temple in the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty with a history of more than 1000 years. The name of the temple is derived from the two jade Buddhas in the temple, sitting on one statue and one resting, who were brought back from Myanmar.
During the period of the emperor's reign guangxu A monk named Huigen came from Puto Mountain to worship the Buddha in India and on the way back, crossing through Myanmar, brought five jade statues, large and small, of the Buddha to China.
In 1882, in the eighth year of Guangxu's reign, two of Sakyamuni's statues were left, so his temple was built for the first time in Jiangwan, giving it the name of the Jade Buddha Temple.
The temple is an imitation of the palatial buildings of the Song dynasty. The first row is the Hall of the Heavenly Kings, the second the Mahavira Hall, and the third the abbot's hall, above which is the hall for the Jade Buddha.
The rest rooms in the temple are the Meditation Room, the vegetarian canteen, the Reclining Buddha-Hall, the Hall of Charity and Virtue, the Bronze Buddha Hall and the Hall of the Goddess of Mercy and some other rooms and abodes. for visitors.
The Jade Buddhas are the treasure of the temple. One, sitting 1,9 meters tall, is carved from a single piece of white jade, which, pure and bright with a solemn look, can be taken as a piece of treasure in the art of Buddhism.
Another is a 0,95 meter long reclining Buddha, a Sakyamuni figure in the state of nirvana. Hanging on the walls of the Reclining Buddha Hall are the four images that imaginatively describe the life of Buddha. Therefore, the Jade Buddha Temple is a temple with the construction of magnificent and unrivaled Jade Buddhas, a famous Buddhist temple in Shanghai.