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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 overview
Buddhism sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
Use this page to compare country clusters, common place types, UNESCO-tagged landmarks, and the map distribution before exploring individual site pages.
| Coverage | 737 Buddhism sacred places in the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 75 UNESCO-tagged Buddhism sites appear in this browse view. |
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Taisō-ji
Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan
Taisō-ji (霞関山 本覚院 太宗寺) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...
Taiyū-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Founded by Kūkai in the early 9th century at the heart of what is now Osaka's Umeda entertainment district, Taiyū-ji is a Kōyasan Shingon temple whose principal Senju...
Takahata Fudoson
Hino, Tokyo, Japan
Takahata Fudoson (高幡山明王院金剛寺(高幡不動尊)) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Takijiri-oji
Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Takijiri-oji (滝尻王子) is the traditional entrance to the Kumano mountains and one of the five major oji on the Nakahechi section of the Kumano Kodo....
Taktsang Monastery (Tiger’s Nest)
Nyechhu_Shar-ri, Paro, Bhutan
Taktsang clings to a cliff face 900 metres above the Paro valley floor. In the 8th century, Guru Padmasambhava is said to have arrived here on the back of a tigress — his...
Tamga-Tash Buddhist Inscription Stones
Tamga, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan
Tamga-Tash Buddhist Inscription Stones is a documented sacred stones in Tamga, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan, connected with Buddhism....
Tamgaly-Tas Buddhist Rock Inscriptions
Bakanas, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan
Tamgaly-Tas Buddhist Rock Inscriptions is a documented sacred site in Bakanas, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Buddhism....
Tamshing Monastery
Pedtsheling_Tamzhing, Bumthang, Bhutan
Tamshing Monastery was founded in 1501 by Pema Lingpa, one of the five great treasure revealers of Vajrayana Buddhism....
Tanema-ji
Haruno, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
The thirty-fourth temple of the Shikoku 88 sits among rice paddies in Haruno, Kōchi....
Tango Monastery
Boegarna_Dodennang, Thimphu, Bhutan
Tango Monastery stands on a forested hillside north of Thimphu, where the cliff face was once perceived as the flaming form of Hayagriva — the wrathful, horse-headed...
Tanjō-ji (Okayama)
Kumenan, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Tanjō-ji marks the literal birthplace of Hōnen Shōnin (1133–1212), founder of Jōdo-shū Pure Land Buddhism....
Tashiding Monastery
Ravongla, Sikkim, India
Perched on a heart-shaped hill at the confluence of two sacred rivers in Sikkim, Tashiding Monastery is considered the most sacred Buddhist site in the former Himalayan...
Tashilhunpo
城西街道, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Tashilhunpo Monastery rises from the slopes of Niseri Hill in Shigatse, a 37-acre compound of gilded rooftops and whitewashed walls that has served as the seat of the...
Tateyama
Toyama, Japan
Tateyama is a mountain group in Japan’s Northern Alps and a historic centre of mountain worship....
Tatsue-ji
Komatsushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Tatsue-ji is the Sōsekisho, the chief barrier temple of the Shikoku 88. Folk belief holds that pilgrims of unresolved sin or insincere intent cannot pass beyond this gate....
Tây An Pagoda
Châu Đốc, An Giang, Vietnam
Tây An Pagoda is an active Mahayana Buddhist temple below Núi Sam. Buddha devotion, protected nineteenth-century architecture, and the remembered teaching presence of Đoàn...
Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
The Temple of the Emerald Buddha is the royal chapel of Bangkok's Grand Palace and the home of Phra Kaeo Morakot, Thailand's palladium. Rama I installed the image in 1782....
Tenjōji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Mayasan Tenjō-ji sits near the summit of Mt. Maya, the Kobe-area mountain named for Mayadevi (Lady Maya, mother of the Buddha) — the temple's distinctive secondary focus...
Tennō-ji
Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 79 Tennō-ji in Sakaide is named for the body of an emperor — Sutoku, exiled after the Hōgen Disturbance of 1156 and dead in Sanuki in 1164....
Tennōji Temple
Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Tennōji Temple (天王寺) is an active Nichiren Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...
Tenryu-ji Temple
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
At the foot of the Arashiyama mountains in western Kyoto, Tenryu-ji preserves a garden designed by Zen master Musō Soseki for a single purpose: meditation....
Terdrom Sacred Hot Spring
Maizhokunggar, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Terdrom’s hot spring and nunnery stand below a Tibetan valley of retreat caves.
That Ing Hang
Savannakhet, Savannakhet, Laos
Outside Savannakhet stands That Ing Hang, a three-terraced golden stupa marking the spot where, by legend, the ailing Buddha leaned against a hang tree to rest....
That Sikhottabong
Thakhek, Khammouane, Laos
On the Mekong's left bank a few kilometers south of Thakhek, That Sikhottabong rises nearly thirty meters in gold and white....
The Temple of Haeinsa, Gaya-san
Hapcheon, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Haeinsa is one of Korea's Three Jewel Temples, representing the Dharma itself. High on Mount Gayasan, this active monastery safeguards the Tripitaka Koreana, the world's...
Thuparamaya
Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura District, North Central Province, Sri Lanka
Thuparamaya is a documented stupa in Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura District, North Central Province, Sri Lanka, connected with Buddhism....
Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara
Tissamaharama, Tissamaharama, Hambantota District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Tissamaharama Raja Maha Vihara is a documented temple in Tissamaharama, Hambantota District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, connected with Buddhism....
Todaiji
Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
In 752 CE, Emperor Shōmu consecrated a bronze Buddha of unprecedented scale—15 meters tall, cast from nearly all the copper in Japan—to bring peace to a nation wracked by...
Todoroki Fudōson Temple
Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan
Todoroki Fudōson Temple (等々力不動尊) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Tōfuku-ji
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
A Zen training temple stretched across a maple-filled ravine. Tōfuku-ji remains an active Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Tōfuku-ji school temple....
Toji
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
For over 1,200 years, Tō-ji has been the beating heart of Shingon Buddhism—the esoteric tradition that Kūkai brought from China in the 9th century....
Tokoin Hagino-tera
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Tōkō-in — known by the affectionate name Hagi-no-tera, Bush Clover Temple — is a Sōtō Zen temple in suburban Toyonaka, Osaka....
Toling
Tsamda County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Toling Monastery stands in the surreal Zanda Earth Forest of western Tibet, nearly 1,200 kilometers from Lhasa....
Tongdosa
Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Tongdosa is Korea's largest monastic complex and the 'Buddha Jewel' of the country's Three Jewel Temples, built in 646 CE to enshrine relics of the historical Buddha....
Tosa Kokubun-ji
Nankoku, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Tosa Kokubun-ji holds dual identity: imperial provincial temple of ancient Tosa Province and Temple 29 of the Shikoku Pilgrimage....
Toshodai-ji
Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Toshodai-ji, stands in Nara. At Toshodai-ji, Ritsu Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Toshodai-ji addresses Rushana Buddha, Yakushi Nyorai, Thousand-Armed Kannon, and...
Tōshun-ji
Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Tōshun-ji — Shōshū-zan Tōshun-ji — was founded in 1572 by Mōri Terumoto as the bodhi-temple of his grandfather, the warlord Mōri Motonari....
Tövkhön Monastery
Bat-Ölzii, Övörkhangai, Mongolia
The site is the Tövkhön monastery and hermitage on its mountain setting within the Orkhon Valley property, not the valley as a whole.
Toyokawa Inari Betsuin
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Toyokawa Inari Betsuin (豊川稲荷東京別院) is an active Soto Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Trashigang Dzong
Chagzam_Pam, Trashigang, Bhutan
Trashigang Dzong stands on a cliff ledge with sheer drops on three sides, overlooking the confluence of the Drangme Chhu and Gamri Chhu rivers in eastern Bhutan....
Trongsa Dzong
Bagochen Boolingpang Ueling, Trongsa, Bhutan
The Ta Dzong of Trongsa was built in 1652 as a watchtower to guard the largest dzong in Bhutan....
Trúc Lâm Đà Lạt Zen Monastery
Đà Lạt, Lâm Đồng, Vietnam
Trúc Lâm Đà Lạt is a contemporary Zen monastery devoted to meditation, monastic discipline, and renewal of the Vietnamese Trúc Lâm lineage....
Tsugizakura-oji
Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Tsugizakura-oji (継桜王子) is an oji grove known for the Nonaka Ipposugi cedars and its association with Minakata Kumagusu's resistance to shrine consolidation on the...
Tsukiji Hongwan-ji Temple
Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan
Tsukiji Hongwan-ji Temple (浄土真宗本願寺派 築地本願寺) is an active Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Từ Hiếu Pagoda
Huế, Huế, Vietnam
Từ Hiếu is a living Huế monastery shaped by Mahayana practice, filial remembrance, and monastic lineage....
Ugyen Cholling Monastery
Baylamsharang, Samdrup Jongkhar, Bhutan
In the upper Tang Valley of Bumthang, Ogyen Choling sits on a hill shaped like an elephant's head, where the great Nyingma master Longchenpa meditated in a cave in the...
Unpen-ji
Miyoshi, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Unpen-ji sits at 927 metres on the ridge between Tokushima and Kagawa, the highest temple of the Shikoku 88 and the gateway to the Nirvana stage of the pilgrimage....
Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh City
Xuân Hòa, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Vĩnh Nghiêm Pagoda is a modern Ho Chi Minh City center of Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhism shaped by northern practice....
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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.
What kinds of places are included?
The guide includes sacred landscapes, pilgrimage places, and ritual or historical sites where available.
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