Does Jing 'an Temple belong to Pudong or Puxi?

Jing 'an District, located on the west bank of Huangpu River, belongs to Puxi. Jing 'an District is named after Jing 'an Temple. Now Jing 'an, in addition to the original old Jing 'an part, also includes Zhabei area which was merged into Jing 'an on 20 15. This area is called Xin Jing 'an. The area is nearly 37 square kilometers with a population of over 970,000.

The cultural value of Jing 'an Temple;

In modern times, Jing 'an Temple changed from Zen Buddhism to tantric Buddhism, and in 1947, it changed from a descendant jungle to a ten-party sage jungle, that is, the abbot was no longer passed down by the monks of this temple, but recruited sages and abbots from all over the country. 1953, master Song Chi, the abbot at that time, set up an altar in the temple to worship the tantric school, which revived the tantric school in the Han Dynasty that had been lost since the Tang Dynasty. There is a secret altar on the upper floor of the temple, and there are many mancha.

Jing 'an Buddhist College was founded in the spring of the thirty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1946), with Master Taixu as the first dean. Master Ben Guang, former head of the Department of Philosophy of Jinling University, teaches courses such as introduction to Buddhism, comparative religion and epistemology. Master Dao Yuan teaches the Teaching of Sages, Master Du Huan teaches Buddhist studies, Professor Lin Ziqing teaches the history of Indian Buddhism, Professor Guan Dedong and Professor Chen Yuxian successively teach Chinese, and Master Xiuqi teaches fine arts.

After becoming a monk, there are nearly 100 readers. The following year, the monk himself founded the magazine "Learning Monks' Heaven and Earth". In addition to publishing articles on learning monks in our college, other famous people who wrote articles for the magazine include Nanyang Cihang Master, Buddhists Da Xing, Fa Zun, Ai Ting, Nan Ting, Xue Song, Yan Pei, Ji Xianlin, director of the Oriental Language Department in Peking University, and Mr. Ye Shengtao, a famous educator and writer.