little one enjoying the Xiamen beachstudent nuns in Shanghai at the temple, on their way to servicea monk at the service takes a quick callwe were not permitted into the temple but we could take pix from the area outside the temple; this is a picture of the nun students at the prayer serviceand now a student takes a call during the service….interior courtyard of the temple; note the clay roof tiles and the high rise buildings in the background – this temple is surrounded by buildings and constructiona garden tucked into the temple’s free spacea floral wall along part of the Bund (the Shanghai embankment on the Huangpu River)flowers on a busy Shanghai streetpart of a jade sculpture at the Arts and Crafts Research Institute in Shanghaia large jade sculpture of a town, from the Arts and Crafts Research Institute in Shanghaidetail from the large sculpture in the last picture
