Visiting The Jade Buddha Temple In Shanghai, China

in travel •  6 years ago 

In the western part of Shanghai you can find the Jade Buddha Temple. Michelle and I visited the temple in 2017 on our journey across Asia. 

In 1882, a temple was built to keep two jade Buddha statues. The sitting Buddha statues had been imported from Burma. The larger of the two original Buddha statues weighed in excess of 3 tons (6K lbs). 

The temple was destroyed during one of China's revolutions, but the statues were preserved and the temple was rebuilt in its current form in 1928.

Followers of Mahayana Buddhism frequent the Jade Buddha Temple today. They can be seen lighting candles and incense in the courtyards surrounding the temple. 

These are some of my best pictures from our visit:

The temple also houses a much larger reclining Buddha made of marble, donated from Singapore.


Michelle and I took a month to travel across Japan and China last May (2017). It was epic! Follow me, @slickwilly and Michelle, @curiouser for posts about our travel adventures!

All 56 Steemit Posts -  SLICKWILLY's Highlights Of Traveling Japan Series



Hi there, I’m Will. First and foremost I am an entrepreneur and voluntaryist. I aspire to help build a more free world, one that we all want to live in. Some of my biggest passions include cryptocurrencies, marketing, finance, cannabis, traveling, bodybuilding, snowboarding, motorcycles, and Subarus. All pictures are my own unless otherwise stated. I release everything under CC0.

My Links:

Affiliated STEEM Accounts:

@motorspeednews | @bitcoinshirtz | @trueliberty


Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Sort Order:  

Hi @slickwilly!

Your post was upvoted by @steem-ua, new Steem dApp, using UserAuthority for algorithmic post curation!
Your UA account score is currently 5.019 which ranks you at #1053 across all Steem accounts.
Your rank has dropped 11 places in the last three days (old rank 1042).

In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 288 contributions, your post is ranked at #213.

Evaluation of your UA score:
  • You've built up a nice network.
  • The readers appreciate your great work!
  • Try to work on user engagement: the more people that interact with you via the comments, the higher your UA score!

Feel free to join our @steem-ua Discord server

Great visit you had there so nice to check out this post beautiful :)

Congratulations @slickwilly! You have completed the following achievement on the Steem blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You made more than 11000 upvotes. Your next target is to reach 12000 upvotes.

Click here to view your Board of Honor
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP

Support SteemitBoard's project! Vote for its witness and get one more award!

Dear @slickwilly

I just decided to visit your profile and check out your latest content only to notice that you didn't blog in quite a while already.

Hope you didn't give up completely on Steemit?

Cheers, Piotr