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Buddhism
Buddhist sacred sites trace the movement of teachings, relics, monastic communities, cave practice, stupas, temples, and pilgrimage routes across Asia and beyond.
737 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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| UNESCO heritage | 75 UNESCO-tagged Buddhism sites appear in this browse view. |
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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....
Shin-Yakushi-ji
Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Shin-Yakushi-ji in Nara is a Buddhist temple whose main hall centres on Yakushi Nyorai, the Medicine Buddha, surrounded by protective divine generals....
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....
Shōraku-ji (Senjū-in)
Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Shōraku-ji, also known as Senju-in, sits on a low hill in Bizen and serves as Temple #3 of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage. The honzon is a hibutsu Eleven-Faced Kannon....
Shōrin-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Shōrin-ji, fifteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Kenchō-ji branch on the historic Banba-machi neighbourhood of central...
Shorinji Temple, Sakurai
Sakurai, Nara, Japan
At Shorinji, the principal Koyasu Enmei Jizo is associated with prayers for children and safe childbirth....
Shōryū-ji
Tosa, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Shōryū-ji is the thirty-sixth stop on the Shikoku 88, set on the Yokonami Peninsula above Uranouchi Bay in Tosa City....
Shōsan-ji
Kamiyama, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Shōsan-ji stands at 706 metres on Mt. Shōsan-ji in Kamiyama, the second-highest temple of the Shikoku 88 and the first nansho or 'difficult place' on the route....
Shoushanyan Guanyin Temple
Guishan, Taoyuan City, Taoyuan, Taiwan
On Longevity Mountain in Taoyuan stands a Guanyin temple with an unusual image: the bodhisattva of compassion depicted in masculine form, crowned like an emperor....
Shusshakaji
Zentsūji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 73 Shusshakaji sits at the foot of Mt Gahaishi in Zentsūji City, Kagawa. The legend here is intimate: a seven-year-old boy named Mao — later Kūkai — leapt from a...
Si Thep Ancient Town
Si Thep, Phetchabun, Thailand
Si Thep is a UNESCO-inscribed serial cultural property whose moated twin town, Khao Klang Nok monument, and Khao Thamorrat cave document Dvaravati religious exchange....
Silsangsa
Namwon, Namwon, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....
Simtokha Dzong
Thimphu, Thimphu, Bhutan
Simtokha Dzong is where the dzong concept began. Built in 1629 by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal on a hill five kilometres south of Thimphu, it was the first structure in...
Sinheungsa Temple
Sokcho-si, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Sinheungsa stands near the main entrance to Seoraksan, where hikers, cable-car passengers, devotees, and resident Buddhists share the same approach....
Sōji-ji
Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Sōji-ji is station 22 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kōyasan Shingon-shū temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Sompur Mahavihara
Badalgachhi Upazila, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
In the Naogaon district of northwestern Bangladesh, the ruins of Somapura Mahavihara cover 27 acres — the footprint of what was once the largest Buddhist monastery south...
Songgwangsa
Suncheon, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Songgwangsa is the 'Sangha Jewel' of Korea's Three Jewel Temples, refounded in 1190 by the reformer Bojo Jinul as the seat of a movement to revive Korean Buddhist practice....
Sōrin-ji
Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Sōrin-ji — Shōkō-zan Sōrin-ji — is a Tang-Chinese-founded temple (777 CE) re-established in 1670 as the bodhi-temple of the Fukuhara clan, chief retainers of the Mōri...
Sri Dalada Maligawa, Temple of the Tooth
Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Beside Kandy's lake stands the palace-temple that has held the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha since the seat of Sinhala kingship settled in these hills....
Ssanggyesa Temple
Hadong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Ssanggyesa is often approached beneath six kilometres of spring blossom, yet its name points inward to paired streams and its history points beyond a single season....
St Nicholas Monastery, Mesopotam, Albania
Brajlat, Vlorë, Albania
Gangteng Monastery commands a spur above the Phobjikha Valley at 3,000 metres, fulfilling a prophecy made by the treasure revealer Pema Lingpa....
Sudeoksa Temple
Yesan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
Sudeoksa’s Daeungjeon does not need brilliant color to announce its importance. Built in 1308, its bracket work, measured bays, and deep roof preserve a rare Goryeo wooden...
Sugimoto-dera
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Sugimoto-dera is the first station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — Kamakura's oldest Buddhist temple, where three Eleven-Headed Kannon statues from successive Heian centuries...
Suisen-ji
Minano, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Suisen-ji — Nittaku-san Suisen-ji — is the 34th and final station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage and the kechigan-jo (結願所, 'place where the vow is fulfilled') of...
Suishō-ji (Daishō-in)
Miyajima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Daishō-in — full classical name Takizan Suiseiji Daishōin (also Suishō-ji), commonly called Miyajima Daishō-in — is the daihonzan (head temple) of the Omuro branch of...
Suma-dera
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Suma-dera, formally Joya-san Fukushō-ji, is the head temple (daihonzan) of its own Shingon sub-school — the Shingon-shū Sumadera-ha — and the principal site of Heike...
Swayambhunath, Kathmandu
Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal
Swayambhunath rises from a forested hill four kilometers west of central Kathmandu, its gilded spire visible across the valley....
Ta Prohm
Siem Reap, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Originally Rajavihara, Ta Prohm was consecrated by Jayavarman VII in 1186 and associated its principal image of Prajnaparamita with the king's mother....
Tachibana-dera
Nara Prefecture, Japan
Tachibana-dera is a Tendai temple set in the Asuka rice fields of Nara Prefecture, traditionally identified as the birthplace of Prince Shōtoku....
Tachiki-Kannon An’yō-ji
Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Tachiki Kannon An'yō-ji stands above the Seta River on a cliff that pilgrims reach by climbing roughly 800 stone steps....
Tadzong National Museum, Trongsa
Bagochen Boolingpang Ueling, Trongsa, Bhutan
The Ta Dzong of Trongsa was built in 1652 as a watchtower to guard the largest dzong in Bhutan....
Taeansa Temple, Gokseong
Gokseong, Gokseong, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Its inclusion on Nine Mountain Seon Schools is supported by the reviewed route, religious, heritage record, and structured-resolved subject sources....
Taima-dera
Nara Prefecture, Japan
Taima-dera is a major dual-administered temple at the foot of Mount Nijō — held jointly by Shingon (Buzan branch) and Jōdo-shū....
Tairyū-ji
Anan, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Tairyū-ji, Temple 21 of the Shikoku 88, is one of the few sites Kūkai names in his own writings as the place of his decisive ascetic practice....
Taisan-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Sanshinzan Taisan-ji in Kobe's Nishi Ward holds a 1293 wooden main hall registered as a National Treasure of Japan — one of only a few such structures in the entire Hyōgo...
Taisan-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 52 of the Shikoku henro stands northwest of Matsuyama in cypress and bamboo forest....
Taisan-ji
Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Temple 56 of the Shikoku henro is one of the few personally founded by Kūkai. In 815 he led local villagers in flood-control work along the Sosha River, performed the...
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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, Bhutan, Vietnam.
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