Jade Buddha Temple

Jade Buddha Temple is still a functioning monastery, replete with monks who reside, pray, study, and conduct religious ceremonies on holy occasions. It is also home to the Shanghai Buddhism Institute; incense never ceases to burn at Jade Buddha Temple. Many ancient statues and paintings, as well as a rare set of Buddhist scriptures - the Dazangjing - printed during the Qing Dynasty, and more than 7000 other Buddhist scriptures, are kept in a special repository at the monastery. They represent one of the largest collections of Buddhist scriptures in China.