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West Nanjing Road & Jing'an
Lined with sharp top-end shopping malls, clusters of foreign offices and a
dense crop of embassies and consulates, West Nanjing Rd is where Shang-
hai's streets are paved with gold, or at least Prada and Gucci.
JADE BUDDHA TEMPLE
( Yufo Si; off
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170 Anyuan Rd; 170 adult ¥20; 8am-4.30pm;
Changshou Rd)
One of Shanghai's few active Buddhist monasteries, this
temple was built between 1918 and 1928. The centrepiece is the 1.9m-high
pale green
Jade Buddha
, seated upstairs in his own hall. Visitors are not able
to approach the statue, but can admire it from a distance. An additional charge
of ¥10 is levied to view the statue (no photographs).
A large
vegetarian restaurant
( sucai canting; 999 Jiangning Rd)
is at-
tached to the temple around the corner.
Buddhist
