Yufo Si (the Jade Buddha Temple), boasting the second of the city's most important religious sites, is a monastery built in 1882 to enshrine two magnificent statues which had been brought from Burma. Each of these Buddha is carved from a single piece of white jade: the larger statue, a reclining figure, is displayed downstairs, while the smaller, but far more exquisite, sitting statue is housed in a room upstairs as part of an extensive collection of Buddhist sutras and paintings. monish balaji.