[ **up: [[Shanghai (China)|Shanghai]] | [[Temples--China]] ] --- # Yufo Temple (Jade Buddha Temple) [[2025-0315. Yonghe Temple 'offers several types of beaded bracelets in various colors that are supposed to improve people’s fortunes for things like their health, career and relationships.'|Yufo Temple, or Jade Buddha Temple, is ‘a famous Buddhist temple located in central Shanghai.’]][^1] [[2025-0315. 'Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple is located on the road of Anyuan, Shanghai.'|'Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple is located on the road of Anyuan, Shanghai.']][^2] --- ## Tourist destination ### Directions #### Subway > Jiangning Road Station of Metro Line 13 (500m).[^3] #### Bus > Buses that stop near the temple: > 13、19、24、36、54、63、68、76、105、106、112、113、138、206、738、768、830、837.[^4] --- ## Religious site ### Promotion of Buddhism [[2025-0315. 'As for the promotion of Buddhism, the Jade Buddha Zen Temple regularly conducts Buddhist and Buddhist training classes for Buddhists, as well as meditation projects...'|'As for the promotion of Buddhism, the Jade Buddha Zen Temple regularly conducts Buddhist and Buddhist training classes for Buddhists, as well as meditation projects such as scripture-copying, Buddhist practice, meditation and meditation, Zen state of mind and night, and Jade Buddha inquiry and meditation, for the believers to experience and practice.']][^5] --- ### Cultural institutions: “building monasteries through culture and invigorating monasteries through education” [[2025-0315. 'The Jade Buddha Zen Temple, adhering to the development concept of “building monasteries through culture and invigorating monasteries through education”, has established a series of cultural institutions and platforms ...'|'In terms of cultural exchanges, the Jade Buddha Zen Temple, adhering to the development concept of “building monasteries through culture and invigorating monasteries through education”, has established a series of cultural institutions and platforms, such as the Sanskrit Orchestra, the Jade Buddha Zen Temple website, the Juequn College and the Painting and Calligraphy College. Regular cultural lectures such as “Group Life Forum” are held every month, as well as calligraphy, painting and other art exhibitions.’]][^6] --- ### Charity and public welfare [[2025-0315. 'The Jade Buddha Zen Temple, adhering to the development concept of “building monasteries through culture and invigorating monasteries through education”, has established a series of cultural institutions and platforms ...'|’In terms of charity and public welfare, Jade Buddha Zen Monastery, adhering to the concept of awakening the great monk “awakening the masses, contributing to the community”, is actively committed to social welfare charity, the creation of the Awakening Group Cultural and Educational Foundation, has been committed to the inheritance and development of China’s excellent traditional culture, as well as social charity projects.’]][^7] [[2025-0315. 'As for the promotion of Buddhism, the Jade Buddha Zen Temple regularly conducts Buddhist and Buddhist training classes for Buddhists, as well as meditation projects...'|’More than 30 law societies, such as the Land and Water Law Society, the Orchid Basin Society, the Huayan Law Society, and the Three Conversions, are held regularly every year, which can be used for the cultivation of good news and the accumulation of virtue and good deeds.’]][^8] --- ### Temple ‘merchandise’ [[2025-0315. Yonghe Temple 'offers several types of beaded bracelets in various colors that are supposed to improve people’s fortunes for things like their health, career and relationships.'|’Over the weekend at Yufo Temple … visitors crowded in the temple’s store, selecting commodities piled up on the shelves such as ink pens, teacups and key chains.’]][^9] [[2025-0315. Yonghe Temple 'offers several types of beaded bracelets in various colors that are supposed to improve people’s fortunes for things like their health, career and relationships.'|’Among the various products, a 99 yuan gift box for students is a ­bestseller, according to one shop employee. The box contains four ink pens, a silk sachet and a badge with a cartoon image of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Manjusri, on it.’]][^10] #### “Shixiaobai” [[2025-0315. 'Another popular cartoon figure sold at Yufo Temple is of a little monk named “Shixiaobai.”'|'Another popular cartoon figure sold at Yufo Temple is of a little monk named “Shixiaobai.”']][^11] [^1]: Huang Lanlan, ‘[[Huang. ‘Chinese temples attracting young people with trendy, well-designed products’, 2023.|Chinese temples attracting young people with trendy, well-designed products]]’, *Global Times*, 24 May 2023, https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291305.shtml. [^2]: 玉佛寺新媒体中心 \[Jade Buddha Temple New Media Center], ‘Brief introduction of monasteries’, *Yufo Temple*, 18 October 2018, https://www.yufotemple.com/en/view/847. [^3]: 玉佛寺新媒体中心 \[Jade Buddha Temple New Media Center], ‘Brief introduction of monasteries’, *Yufo Temple*, 18 October 2018, https://www.yufotemple.com/en/view/847. [^4]: 玉佛寺新媒体中心 \[Jade Buddha Temple New Media Center], ‘Brief introduction of monasteries’, *Yufo Temple*, 18 October 2018, https://www.yufotemple.com/en/view/847. [^5]: 玉佛寺新媒体中心 \[Jade Buddha Temple New Media Center], ‘Brief introduction of monasteries’, *Yufo Temple*, 18 October 2018, https://www.yufotemple.com/en/view/847. [^6]: 玉佛寺新媒体中心 \[Jade Buddha Temple New Media Center], ‘Brief introduction of monasteries’, *Yufo Temple*, 18 October 2018, https://www.yufotemple.com/en/view/847. [^7]: 玉佛寺新媒体中心 \[Jade Buddha Temple New Media Center], ‘Brief introduction of monasteries’, *Yufo Temple*, 18 October 2018, https://www.yufotemple.com/en/view/847. [^8]: 玉佛寺新媒体中心 \[Jade Buddha Temple New Media Center], ‘Brief introduction of monasteries’, *Yufo Temple*, 18 October 2018, https://www.yufotemple.com/en/view/847. [^9]: Huang Lanlan, ‘[[Huang. ‘Chinese temples attracting young people with trendy, well-designed products’, 2023.|Chinese temples attracting young people with trendy, well-designed products]]’, *Global Times*, 24 May 2023, https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291305.shtml. [^10]: Huang Lanlan, ‘[[Huang. ‘Chinese temples attracting young people with trendy, well-designed products’, 2023.|Chinese temples attracting young people with trendy, well-designed products]]’, *Global Times*, 24 May 2023, https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291305.shtml. [^11]: Huang Lanlan, ‘[[Huang. ‘Chinese temples attracting young people with trendy, well-designed products’, 2023.|Chinese temples attracting young people with trendy, well-designed products]]’, *Global Times*, 24 May 2023, https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291305.shtml.