The Jade Buddha Temple (Chinese: 玉佛寺; pinyin: yùfósì), situated in city center, is a Buddhist temple and the most famous active temple in China. It is one of the main touristic highlights of Shanghai. If you're lucky, you can watch the monks serving a cermony in a side room.

The Jade Buddha Temple carries the building style of the palace from Song Dynasty (960 ~ 1279A.D.). It occupies an area of 8000 square meters and contains 299 rooms, including the Hall of Heavenly Guardians, the Shrine of Greatness and Magnificence, and the Jade Buddha Tower.

The halls also house the most completed collection of the Buddhist Books and Records written in Qing Dynasty (1616 ~ 1911A.D.) and various precious scriptures and cultural relics of Buddhism.

As with most modern Chinese Buddhist temples, the current temple draws from both the Pure Land and Chan traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Burma by sea. These were a sitting Buddha (1.95 metres tall, 3 tonnes), and a smaller reclining Buddha representing Buddha's death. The temple now also contains a much larger reclining Buddha made of marble, donated from Singapore.

The Buddhist monks in China are vegetarians. The renowned vegetarian meals served here attract a large number of tourists, you can find many variety vegetarian dishes serve here and nowhere else in the world. Remember lots people come here just for that! You can taste the colorful, tasty and fragrant vegetarian meals here. It will bring you endless aftertaste.