Continuing to play the tourist, I recently visited the Jing'an Temple located in Jing'an (fitting), home to fancy malls, high-end stores, five-star hotels and a number of office buildings, including Mike's. It's near the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, which is little more than a pretty building (for history buffs, it was built as the Palace of Sino-Soviet Friendship; the star topping the building was a gift from the Russians to their communist counterparts).
The Jing'an Temple is this beautiful sanctuary in the middle of commercial chaos. Leaving behind the billboards, the lights, the traffic, the noise, you step into peace.
Below are the temple's residents and their devotees.
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| Sakyamuni, created out of white jade, 3.87 meters high, 11 tons |
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| Guanyin Bodhisattva, created out of thousand-year-old camphov wood, 6.2 meters high, 5 tons |
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| Buddha, created out of silver, 8.8 meters high, 15 tons |
Can you even make out the temple in the picture below, beyond the lanes of traffic and in between the high-rises? Certainly a nice little escape within the city.
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