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Chenxiang Pavilion

The Chenxiang Pavilion is an active Buddhist temple that currently serves as a convent for nuns, located in Huangpu District, Shanghai. The complex, covering 2,378 square metres, retains the traditional Qing-dynasty layout: an entrance paifang, the Hall of the Four Heavenly Kings, the Mahavira Hall and, at the rear, the Guanyin Hall, arranged across three courtyards along a central axis. In the Mahavira Hall the Three Sages of Huayan are worshipped, with Sakyamuni at the centre flanked by Manjushri and Samantabhadra, along with statues of Brahma, Indra, the Eighteen Arhats and an image of Guanyin with Shancai and Longnü. The Guanyin Hall houses a one-metre-tall wooden carving of Guanyin; the original, carved in 1600, was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, and the current one was donated by Buddhist devotees from Hong Kong. The temple also has a Dharma Protectors Hall dedicated to Lord Guan and a Memorial Hall for Master Yingci. It was founded in 1600 by the official Pan Yunduan, rebuilt in 1815 as Ciyun Chan Temple, and has been protected as a Shanghai Municipal Cultural Heritage site since 1959, a National Key Buddhist Temple since 1983 and a National Historical and Cultural Site since 1996.

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