Chenxiang Pavilion, Buddhist temple in Huangpu District, Shanghai, China

Chenxiang Pavilion is a Buddhist temple in Huangpu District, Shanghai, comprising several different halls and pavilions across its grounds. These buildings house shrines, gathering spaces, and memorial areas dedicated to various religious figures and teachers.

Pan Yunduan, then Sichuan provincial administration commissioner, built the first Chenxiang Pavilion in 1600 on a gate tower at his residence to house a sandalwood Guanyin statue he had recovered from a wrecked boat. That structure collapsed in the late Ming. In 1801 Li Tingjing, the Su-Song-Tai military defense circuit official, rebuilt it at the present site; Pan's descendants donated the front hall in 1805, a Mahavira Hall was added in 1814, and by the Tongzhi era the complex covered 7.3 mu and was renamed Ciyun Chan Temple. All statues were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, when the temple became a factory; religious activity resumed in 1983 and full restoration was completed in 1994.

The name Chenxiang ("agarwood") comes from the sandalwood-agarwood Guanyin statue that Pan Yunduan recovered from a wrecked ship in 1600 and enshrined here. Since 1992 the temple has been a nunnery, and in September 1996 the Shanghai Buddhist Academy's nuns' class moved in. On the birthday of an emperor or empress in the Qing dynasty, local officials came here to offer congratulations.

The site is walkable and easily accessible from various public transport options. Visitors should note that entering the temple requires observing certain behavioral rules and that long weekends and religious holidays can bring larger crowds.

The Guanyin statue in the Hall of Guanyin is a 1-metre (3 ft 3 in) wood carving. The original was carved in 1600 but was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution; the present version was presented by Hong Kong Buddhist devotees.