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Jing'an Temple

Jing'an Temple is a Tangmi esoteric Buddhist temple in Jing'an District, Shanghai. Founded in the year 247 and moved to its current location in 1216, it has been rebuilt several times, most recently in 1880. The complex includes three southern-style halls with courtyards: the Hall of Heavenly Kings, the Hall of the Three Saints and the Hall of Virtuous Works, plus the Daxiongbao Hall (main hall). The Guanyin Hall houses a 6.2-metre, 5-tonne camphor-wood statue of the goddess, and the Jade Buddha Hall has a seated jade Buddha statue 3.8 metres tall, the largest of its kind in China. It also holds a 3.5-tonne Ming-dynasty copper bell, stone Buddha statues from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, paintings by masters such as Chu Zhishan, Zhang Daqian and Wen Zhenming, and mandalas on a tantric altar. In 2009 a 15-tonne pure silver Buddha statue was installed. The temple is surrounded by modern skyscrapers and sits above Jing'an Temple metro station.

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