Tradition guide
Buddhism
Buddhist sacred sites trace the movement of teachings, relics, monastic communities, cave practice, stupas, temples, and pilgrimage routes across Asia and beyond.
664 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country links to narrow in.
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Buddhism sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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Saigoku-ji (Sōji-in)
Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Saigoku-ji — full name Maniyama Sōji-in Saigoku-ji — sits on Mt. Atago above Onomichi's old port, ascended by 108 stone steps....
Saihō-ji
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Scripture before moss in a garden formed by Zen attention. Saihō-ji remains an active Rinzai Zen Buddhism temple....
Saihoin
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Saihōin is a small Pure Land nunnery in Taishi-chō, founded in 622 CE by three of Prince Shōtoku's nurse-attendants who shaved their heads after his death and built the...
Saikō-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saikō-ji, sixteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Shingon Buzan-ha temple whose Senju (Thousand-Armed) Kannon is traditionally attributed to the Nara...
Saimyō-ji
Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Saimyō-ji, station 20 of the Bandō Kannon pilgrimage, sits on the wooded slopes of Mt. Tokkō east of Mashiko....
Sairin-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Sairin-ji is the forty-eighth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and the Sekisho of Iyo, the spiritual checkpoint of the Iyo (Ehime) leg of the four-province circuit....
Saizen-ji
Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saizen-ji is the eighth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama. The Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji school sits at the northern foot of Mt....
Sajasan Beopheungsa
Yeongwol, Yeongwol, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Sajasan Beopheungsa is a living Korean Buddhist temple with historic monastery remains in Yeongwol, South Korea....
Sakami-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Izumi-shōzan Sagami-ji in Kasai, Hyōgo, was founded by imperial command in 745 after the priest Gyōki received an oracle from Sagami Myōjin, a local kami in the Sumiyoshi...
Sakya
Tashigang, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Sakya Monastery is the seat of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, one of the four major schools, founded in 1073 by the Khon family, who trace their ancestry to...
Samhwasa Temple
Donghae-si, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Samhwasa is small enough to be missed by people pressing deeper into Mureung Valley, yet its sacred field is unusually broad....
Samye
Samye, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Samye is where Buddhism became institutionally rooted in Tibet, the place where a religion became a civilization....
Sanbutsu-ji
Misasa, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Sanbutsu-ji, the 31st station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, sits on Mt. Mitoku in Misasa, Tottori....
Sankaku-ji
Shikokuchūō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Sankaku-ji sits at roughly 450 metres above the industrial coast of Shikokuchūō, the sixty-fifth temple of the Shikoku 88 and the last of twenty-six temples in Ehime....
Sanuki Kokubun-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 80 Sanuki Kokubun-ji in Takamatsu is the working successor to one of the eighth-century kokubunji — the provincial protection-temples ordered by Emperor Shōmu in...
Sanzen-in
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Amida devotion held within the moss and streams of Ohara. Sanzen-in remains an active Tendai Buddhism temple....
Satake-ji
Hitachiōta, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Satake-ji is the 22nd Bandō station and the spiritual ward of the medieval Satake clan....
Sefuku-ji
Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Sefuku-ji is station 4 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Katsuragi Shugendō / Mountain ascetic tradition temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Seigan-ji
Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Seigan-ji is the head temple (sōhonzan) of the Jōdo Seizan Fukakusa branch, founded in Nara in 667 CE and relocated in 1591 to Kyoto's Shinkyōgoku entertainment district....
Seiganto-ji
Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Seiganto-ji stands at the head of the Saigoku 33-temple pilgrimage and at the foot of Nachi Falls, Japan's tallest single-drop cascade....
Seigantoji (Seiganto Temple)
Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
High on Mt. Nachi in Wakayama Prefecture, the three-story vermillion pagoda of Seigantoji frames one of the most iconic views in Japan: the 133-meter Nachi Falls cascading...
Sekkei-ji
Kōchi, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Sekkei-ji is the thirty-third stop on the Shikoku 88, founded by Kūkai in the early ninth century and later converted to Rinzai Zen as the bodaiji of the Chōsokabe warlord...
Sengaku-ji
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Sengaku-ji (泉岳寺) is an active Soto Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Senkō-ji
Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Senkō-ji — full name Daihōzan Gongen-in Senkō-ji — clings to the mid-slope of Mt. Senkō above Onomichi harbor....
Sennyū-ji
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Buddhist worship and imperial memorial care at the Mitera. Sennyū-ji remains an active Shingon Buddhism, Sennyū-ji school temple....
Sensō-ji
Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Sensō-ji, the Asakusa Kannon, is the thirteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage and Tokyo's oldest temple....
Senyū-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Senyū-ji crowns Mt. Sakurei south of Imabari, the 58th temple of the Shikoku 88....
Seokguram Grotto
Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Seokguram Grotto is an eighth-century Silla Buddhist sanctuary on Tohamsan, centered on a monumental seated Sakyamuni surrounded by stone reliefs....
Seonamsa Temple
Suncheon, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Seonamsa begins well before its first hall. A roughly one-kilometre path passes through old forest to Seungseongyo, the arched stone bridge carried by natural bedrock....
Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong
Boryeong, Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong is a protected archaeological temple site in Boryeong, South Korea....
Seosan Rock-carved Buddha Triad
Sosan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
The Seosan Rock-carved Buddha Triad is a protected Baekje-period Buddhist monument near the Bowonsa landscape....
Shanti Stupa, Pokhara
Pokhara, Gandaki Province, Nepal
On a ridge above Phewa Lake, the brilliant white World Peace Pagoda commands views that span from Pokhara's lakeside to the Annapurna massif....
Shey Gompa (Shey Palace)
Shey, Karnali Province, Nepal
At 4,200 meters in Nepal's Upper Dolpo, Shey Gompa sits beneath Crystal Mountain—known as the Kailash of Dolpo....
Shibamata Taishakuten
Katsushika City, Tokyo, Japan
Shibamata Taishakuten (柴又帝釈天) is an active Nichiren Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Shido-ji
Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shido-ji stands beside Shido Bay on the Sanuki coast as the eighty-sixth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Shimabu-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Shimabu-ji is the first temple of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Saitama, Japan....
Shimpuku-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Shinpuku-ji is the second station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage and the temple whose late-Muromachi addition raised the Chichibu count to 34....
Shinobazu no Ike Bentendō
Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Shinobazu no Ike Bentendō (不忍池辯天堂) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Shinshō-ji
Muroto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Shinshō-ji rises directly above the working harbour of Murotsu, reached by a steep stone staircase that climbs through a Niōmon gate set unusually mid-flight....
Shiofune Kannon-ji
Ome, Tokyo, Japan
Shiofune Kannon-ji (塩船観音寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...
Shiromine-ji
Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shiromine-ji sits at 280 metres on a forested ridge of the Goshikidai plateau in Kagawa, the eighty-first temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Shitennō-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Shitennō-ji stands at the institutional headwaters of Japanese Buddhism. Founded in 593 CE by Prince Shōtoku after his clan's victory secured Buddhism a place in the new...
Shōbō-ji
Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Shōbō-ji on Mount Iwadono, known for thirteen centuries as Iwadono Kannon, began as a single rock-cave hermitage where the shugendō ascetic Itsumi enshrined a Senju Kannon...
Shōfuku-ji
Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Sashiro-san Shōfuku-ji is the 23rd Bandō station, a temple whose continuity has survived two complete physical destructions. The founding legend tells of a hunter on Mt....
Shōfuku-ji
Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shōfuku-ji — popularly known as Iizumi Kannon — is the fifth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho and one of the most active Shingon Kannon temples in Kanagawa....
Shōhō-ji (Iwama-dera)
Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Shōhō-ji (Iwama-dera) is station 12 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Daigoji-ha temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Shōkoku-ji
Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shōkoku-ji at Mount Myōhō — known for over a millennium as Hoshi-no-ya Kannon, the Valley of Stars Kannon — gathers folk-mystical phenomena around a Sacred Kannon honzon....
Shōkoku-ji (Kyoto)
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
The Zen monastery behind Kyoto’s Golden and Silver Pavilions. Shōkoku-ji (Kyoto) remains an active Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Shōkoku-ji school temple....
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What are Buddhism sacred sites?
Buddhism sacred sites are places connected by shared lineage, practice, memory, ritual use, or pilgrimage tradition.
Where can I find Buddhism sacred sites?
The strongest country clusters in this guide include Japan, Thailand, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Bhutan.
What kinds of places are included?
The guide includes sacred landscapes, pilgrimage places, and ritual or historical sites where available.
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