SHANGHAI JADE BUDDHA TEMPLE

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BUDDHIST TEMPLES & SHRINES

The Jade Buddha Temple (simplified Chinese: 玉佛禅寺 pinyin : Yùfó Chán Sì : literally Jade Buddha Chan Temple) is a Buddhist temple in Shanghai. The current temple draws from both the Pure Land and Chan traditions of Mahayana Buddhism.These were a sitting Buddha (1.95 meters tall, 3 tons), and a smaller reclining Buddha representing the Buddha’s death. The temple now also contains a much larger reclining Buddha made of marble, donated from Singapore. This temple was also pretty cloe where I lived and worked and like it very much !

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SHANGHAI MAGLEV-WORLD’s FASTEST RUNNING TRAIN (431 KMPH)

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TRAIN TRAVEL : ADHESION RAILWAY & MAGLEV

The ride on the fastest moving object on the surface of the earth The commercial high-speed magnetic levitation train with a top speed of 431 KMPH covering a distance of 30.5 KM in little over 7 minutes. In the Video – note the crossing of both the trains that passes in a flash at the 4th minute 28th second with a combined speed of both trains is near 800 KMPH ! I travelled umpteen times on this amazing train !

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BEIJING SHANGHAI HIGH SPEED RAILWAY – THE WORLD´S FASTEST RAILWAY

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TRAIN TRAVEL : ADHESION RAILWAY & MAGLEV

The Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway (or Jinghu high-speed railway, from its name in Mandarin) is a high-speed railway 1318 kilometres (819 mi) long that connects two major economic zones in the People’s Republic of China: the Bohai Economic Rim and the Yangtze River Delta. Construction began on April 18, 2008 with the line opened to the public for commercial service on […]

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