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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.
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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Wat Phra That Cho Hae
Phrae, Phrae, Thailand
Wat Phra That Cho Hae is Phrae's principal living relic sanctuary. Tourism Authority sources describe its gilded chedi as traditionally holding a relic from the Buddha's...
Wat Phra That Chom Chaeng
Phrae, Phrae, Thailand
Wat Phra That Chom Chaeng is a living Phrae monastery organized around a twenty-nine-metre golden chedi....
Wat Phra That Doi Kham
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Wat Phra That Doi Kham is a hilltop Buddhist temple whose central meaning comes from a Buddha hair-relic tradition, an old chedi, Luang Pho Than Chai devotion, and stories...
Wat Phra That Doi Leng
Phrae, Phrae, Thailand
Wat Phra That Doi Leng occupies a hill above Phrae and is approached for Buddha images, worship, and a broad view across the province....
Wat Phra That Doi Suthep
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Wat Phra That Doi Suthep crowns a forested mountain above Chiang Mai, where a golden chedi enshrining a Buddha relic anchors Lanna devotion....
Wat Phra That Doi Tung
Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Wat Phra That Doi Tung is a Lanna Buddha-relic shrine high above Chiang Rai. Official sources document a recurrent named mountain pilgrimage, relic-bathing rites, alms,...
Wat Phra That Hariphunchai
Lamphun, Lamphun, Thailand
Wat Phra That Hariphunchai centers Lamphun's religious memory on a principal stupa said to enshrine a hair of the Buddha....
Wat Phra That Lampang Luang
Ko Kha, Lampang, Thailand
Wat Phra That Lampang Luang rises within a walled hilltop enclosure outside Lampang city....
Wat Phra That Pu Chae
Rong Kwang, Phrae, Thailand
Wat Phra That Pu Chae is a Phrae-area Buddhist sanctuary distinguished in official tourism material by a golden pagoda and a large white Buddha in the posture of victory...
Wat Phra That, Kamphaeng Phet
Kamphaeng Phet, Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand
According to the Fine Arts Department's monument record and map, Wat Phra That is the distinct inner-city temple immediately east of Wat Phra Kaew in Kamphaeng Phet...
Wat Phumin
Nan, Nan, Thailand
Wat Phumin is a living Nan monastery whose cruciform hall gathers four principal Buddha images back-to-back at its center....
Wat Phutthaisawan
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
Wat Phutthaisawan stands across the river from Ayutthaya's island and is associated with the city's early royal history....
Wat Prayurawongsawat
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Wat Prayurawongsawat, also called Wat Prayoon, is a living royal monastery beside Bangkok's Memorial Bridge....
Wat Rai Khing
Sam Phran, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Wat Rai Khing is a riverside Nakhon Pathom monastery focused on Luang Pho Wat Rai Khing, its principal Buddha image in the Mara-victory posture....
Wat Ratchabophit
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Wat Ratchabophit's compact plan gathers richly ornamented sacred buildings around a circular chedi....
Wat Ratchaburana, Ayutthaya
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
Wat Ratchaburana is an archaeological temple in Ayutthaya's UNESCO-listed historic city....
Wat Ratchanatdaram
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Loha Prasat distinguishes Wat Ratchanatdaram from every other Bangkok monastery in this batch....
Wat Rong Khun
Mueang Chiang Rai, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Wat Rong Khun is a contemporary, privately developed art complex in the form of a Buddhist temple, created by Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat....
Wat Sa Si
Mueang Kao, Sukhothai, Thailand
Wat Sa Si is an island monastery in Sukhothai Historical Park, approached by a causeway across Traphang Trakuan....
Wat Saket
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Wat Saket's Golden Mount is a constructed sacred topography rather than a natural summit or an untouched ancient stupa....
Wat Saphan Hin
Mueang Kao, Sukhothai, Thailand
Wat Saphan Hin takes its name from the slate-paved route climbing a western hill to Phra Attharot, a monumental standing Buddha....
Wat Si Chum
Mueang Kao, Sukhothai, Thailand
Wat Si Chum is organized around Phra Achana, the immense seated Buddha visible through a narrow opening in the mondop....
Wat Si Sawai
Mueang Kao, Sukhothai, Thailand
Wat Si Sawai preserves three Lopburi-style prangs and evidence of changing religious use....
Wat Sothon Wararam Worawihan
Chachoengsao, Chachoengsao, Thailand
Wat Sothon Wararam Worawihan is a major living temple beside the Bang Pakong River....
Wat Suan Dok
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Wat Suan Dok joins a great relic chedi, an open-sided assembly hall, Phra Chao Kao Tue, a cemetery of Chiang Mai royalty, and Buddhist higher education....
Wat Suthat
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Wat Suthat gathers royal planning, a monumental Sukhothai Buddha, murals, carved doors, and a distinctive sacred landscape without a conventional central chedi....
Wat Tham Khao Noi
Tha Muang, Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Wat Tham Khao Noi is a Vietnamese-Mahayana Buddhist temple beside Wat Tham Sua in Tha Muang....
Wat Tham Sua, Kanchanaburi
Tha Muang, Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Wat Tham Sua in Kanchanaburi is a living hill temple founded in 1971. Provincial sources identify its large blessing-posture Buddha and tall Ket Kaeo Maha Prasat chedi;...
Wat Tham Suea, Krabi
Mueang Krabi, Krabi, Thailand
Wat Tham Suea in Krabi is a living Buddhist monastery embedded in limestone caves and forest, with a demanding stair route to a summit Buddha and viewpoint....
Wat Umong
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Wat Umong is a forest monastery at the foot of Doi Suthep where brick tunnels, Buddha images, a chedi, trees, and meditation practice form one environment....
Wat Xieng Mouane
Luang Prabang, Luang Prabang, Laos
In the heart of Luang Prabang's UNESCO heritage peninsula, Wat Xieng Mouane is a mid-19th-century royal-era temple whose name means 'Melodious Sounds.' Behind its gold...
Wat Xieng Thong, Luang Prabang
Luang Prabang, Luang Prabang, Laos
At the tip of Luang Prabang's peninsula, where the Mekong meets the Nam Khan, Wat Xieng Thong has stood since 1560....
Wat Xiengthong
Luang Prabang, Luang Prabang, Laos
On the northern tip of the Luang Prabang peninsula, where the Mekong meets the Nam Khan, Wat Xieng Thong gathers four centuries of Lao devotion under its low, cascading...
Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon is a living monastery southeast of Ayutthaya's island. Its great chedi commemorates King Naresuan's victory, while an active sangha, principal Buddha...
Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit is easy to append mentally to the nearby palace ruins, yet its sacred life is distinct....
Woljeongsa Temple
Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Woljeongsa’s entrance is a long adjustment of sight and pace. Fir trunks rise in repeated verticals before the path reaches Geumganggyo and the main precinct; within the...
Xá Lợi Pagoda
Xuân Hòa, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Xá Lợi Pagoda is a modern Ho Chi Minh City Buddhist center named for sacred relics of Śākyamuni Buddha....
Yakcheonsa Temple
Seogwipo, Jeju-do, South Korea
Yakcheonsa grew from a small hermitage called Yaksuam into a large Buddhist complex on Jeju's southern side....
Yakuō-ji
Minami, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Yakuō-ji, Temple 23 of the Shikoku 88, is the canonical yakuyoke-no-tera — the misfortune-warding temple — of the pilgrimage....
Yakuri-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Yakuri-ji clings to the western slope of Mt. Goken at 375 metres, the eighty-fifth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Yakuriji Temple, Yakuri
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 85 on the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage, Yakuriji sits high on Mount Goken, the Mountain of Five Swords, whose dramatic peaks thrust skyward like divine blades....
Yakushi-ji
Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Yakushi-ji, stands in Nara. At Yakushi-ji, Hossō Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Yakushi-ji addresses Yakushi Nyorai with Nikkō and Gakkō Bosatsu....
Yanglesho Cave
Pharping, Bagmati Province, Nepal
In this cave near Pharping, Guru Padmasambhava and his Nepali consort Shakyadevi practiced the most profound tantric sadhanas and attained the Mahamudra vidyadhara...
Yasaka-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Yasaka-ji is the forty-seventh temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most layered....
Yashima-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Yashima-ji crowns the mesa of Yashima, 293 metres above the Seto Inland Sea, and is the eighty-fourth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Yokei-ji
Setouchi, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Yokei-ji crowns Ueterasan, a low hill above the rice plains of Setouchi City. Founded in the eighth century and long affiliated with the Tendai school, the temple holds...
Yōkoku-ji
Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Yōkoku-ji — known to most Kyotoites as Yanagidani Kannon — joins three rare devotional layers in one Nishiyama mountainside: a hibutsu Eleven-faced Thousand-armed Kannon...
Yokomine-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Yokomine-ji clings to the northern slope of Mt. Ishizuchi, the highest peak in western Japan, at roughly 750 m elevation....
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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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