little one enjoying the Xiamen beach

student nuns in Shanghai at the temple, on their way to service

a monk at the service takes a quick call

we 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 service

and 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 construction

a garden tucked into the temple’s free space

a floral wall along part of the Bund (the Shanghai embankment on the Huangpu River)

flowers on a busy Shanghai street

part of a jade sculpture at the Arts and Crafts Research Institute in Shanghai

a large jade sculpture of a town, from the Arts and Crafts Research Institute in Shanghai

detail from the large sculpture in the last picture