There is surely a meditation hall in each monastery of the Chan Sect, for meditation practice is one of the main ways of cultivation. In the middle is enshrined with a gilded Sakyamuni. The Buddha is in a sitting posture with legs crossed and soles upturned. His hands are in a sign of meditation. There is an offering table in front of the shrine, where only light incenses are burnt. On the left and right sides of the wooden fence before the shrine there is one warning lath each, written respectively “discipline lath” and “supervision plate”, which warn the monks in meditation from sleeping or distraction.

On the walls of the east and west sides of the meditation hall there is a wooden plate each, written respectively “Who Is Chanting Buddha?” and “Mind the Beginning of the Talk.” On the upper part of the walls there are many pieces of red paper about 0.66 meter long with characters, such as “First Seat”, “General Affairs Director”, “Guest Receiver” from south to north on the east wall, from south to north on the west wall, “First seat”, “Guest Ex-Abbot”, “First Seat of Back Hall” and “Head of Medicine Hall”. These are the arrangement of seat boards after the appointment of different duties for the monks, which show the positions of the monks in the monastery. Usually, the monks are seated according to the arranged order when they sit in meditation or discuss monastic affairs.

The Jade Buddha Monastery has been stressing on sitting in meditation. Since the end of 1970s, the restoration of opening of the monastery, besides the daily sitting in meditation, monks will assemble in the Meditation Hall to sit in meditation for seven days with the abbot as the head from the first to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year.