Buddhism

Gwaneumsa Temple

Cheju, Jeju-do, South Korea

Gwaneumsa is the principal temple of the Jogye Order’s twenty-third district on Jeju, set on Hallasan’s northern side rather than in the island’s urban core....

Gyeongju Historic Area

Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

For nearly a millennium, Gyeongju served as the capital of the Silla kingdom and the center of Korean Buddhism's golden age....

Gyōgan-ji (Kōdō)

Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Gyōgan-ji (Kōdō) is station 19 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Miyako Shichifukujin temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....

Haiyin Temple, Kinmen

Jinhu, Kinmen County, Kinmen County, Taiwan

Haiyin Temple sits near the summit of Mount Taiwu, Kinmen's highest point, where a Song-dynasty folk shrine gradually became one of the island's most significant Buddhist...

Hang Pagoda, Núi Sam

Châu Đốc, An Giang, Vietnam

Hang Pagoda, also known as Phước Điền Tự, is a Mahayana Buddhist sanctuary on Núi Sam....

Hang Pagoda, Trà Vinh

Châu Thành, Vĩnh Long, Vietnam

Hang Pagoda in Trà Vinh is a Khmer Theravada monastery, distinct from the pagoda of the same English name at Núi Sam....

Hanta-ji

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 50 of the Shikoku henro stands on a wooded hillside above southern Matsuyama, its Yakushi Nyorai principal image attributed by tradition to the wandering monk Gyōki....

Hase-dera

Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hase-dera is station 8 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Buzan-ha temple in Nara dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....

Hase-dera

Sakurai, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Hase-dera in Kamakura is the fourth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a hillside temple above Yuigahama beach famous for its Eleven-Headed Kannon, a 9.18-metre gilded...

Hashidate-dō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hashidate-dō — Sekiryū-zan Hashidate-dō — is the 28th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple set beneath an eighty-metre limestone cliff in the...

Henshō-ji (Hōkai-in)

Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Henshō-ji, also known as Hōkai-in, sits at the base of wooded Kongōsan in northern Okayama City....

Higashi Hongan-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Immense timber halls built for shared listening and nembutsu. Higashi Hongan-ji remains an active Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Ōtani-ha temple....

Higashi Hongan-ji

Taito City, Tokyo, Japan

Higashi Hongan-ji (東本願寺) is an active Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Hoằng Phúc Pagoda

Tân Mỹ, Quảng Trị, Vietnam

Hoằng Phúc Pagoda is a restored Mahayana Buddhist sanctuary in Lệ Thủy whose long institutional memory includes repeated destruction and renewal....

Hōchō-ji

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōchō-ji is the seventh station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....

Hōgon-ji

Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Hogon-ji is station 30 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Buzan-ha, Benzaiten devotion temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....

Hōju-ji

Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Hōju-ji is the 62nd fudasho on the Shikoku 88, an 8th-century imperial foundation that has been moved at least four times—by flood, war, Meiji separation, and the...

Hōki-in

Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hōki-in is station bangai-hoki-in on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Buzan branch temple in Nara dedicated to Kannon....

Hokki-ji

Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hokki-ji, stands in Ikaruga. At Hokki-ji, Shōtoku-shū Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Hokki-ji addresses the Buddhist teaching transmitted through Prince Shōtoku's...

Honsenji Temple

Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan

Honsenji Temple (品川寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

Hōrin-ji

Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Hōrin-ji is the only temple among the Shikoku 88 whose principal image is a Parinirvana Shaka Nyorai—Shakyamuni at the threshold of nirvana, lying on his side....

Horyuji

Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan

The pagoda and main hall of Hōryū-ji have stood for over 1,300 years—the oldest surviving wooden structures on earth....

Hōsen-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōsen-ji is the twenty-fourth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch that, until the mid-19th century, was a Shugendō...

Hōshō-ji

Ogano, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōshō-ji — Hannya-san Hōshō-ji — is the 32nd station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen mountain temple in Ogano set against a sandstone cliff....

Hosshinmon-oji

Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Hosshinmon-oji (発心門王子) is a major threshold marking entry into the divine precincts of Kumano Hongu Taisha on the Nakahechi section of the Kumano Kodo....

Hotsumisaki-ji

Muroto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Hotsumisaki-ji, Temple 24 of the Shikoku 88, sits on the cliffs of Cape Muroto. Below, in the Mikurodō Cave, the young Kūkai is said to have completed the Kokūzō...

Houki-in Temple

Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Hōki-in is the Mt. Kōya sub-temple charged each year with carrying fresh monastic robes to Kōbō Daishi at the Okunoin mausoleum, where Kūkai is believed to remain in...

Hōun-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōun-ji — Zuiryū-san Hōun-ji — is the 30th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, founded in 1319 by the Kamakura Zen master Dōin (Dōon) of Kenchō-ji....

Hsi Lai Temple

Hacienda Heights, California, United States

Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, belongs within Buddhism. At Hsi Lai Temple, sacred life continues through meditation at Hsi Lai Temple, chanting at Hsi Lai...

Hsinchu Zhulian Temple

Hsinchu City, Hsinchu City, Taiwan

In Hsinchu's oldest Buddhist-affiliated temple, three Guanyin statues with three separate histories share one altar....

Huyền Không Cave

Ngũ Hành Sơn, Da Nang, Vietnam

Huyền Không is a naturally lit cave within the Marble Mountains whose Buddhist altars make geological enclosure a place of prayer and memorial attention....

Hwagyesa Temple

Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Hwagyesa occupies a wooded fold of Samgaksan on Seoul’s northern edge. Its current halls belong to a history of fire, immediate rebuilding, and later expansion, not to...

Ichihata-ji

Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan

Ichihata-ji (Ichibata Yakushi), the 26th station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, sits atop Mt. Ichihata above Lake Shinji....

Ichijō-ji

Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Ichijo-ji is station 26 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Hyogo dedicated to Shō Kannon....

Ichinomiya-ji

Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Ichinomiya-ji is the eighty-third temple of the Shikoku circuit and the only one historically tied to a province's principal Shinto shrine....

Ido-ji

Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Ido-ji, Temple 17 of the Shikoku 88, is named for a well Kūkai is said to have dug in a single night to bring clean water to a suffering village....

Ikaruga-dera

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Hyōgo Ikaruga-dera in Taishi-chō was founded by Prince Shōtoku in 606 CE on rice-paddy lands granted to him in Harima Province by Empress Suiko....

Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple

Ota City, Tokyo, Japan

Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple (日蓮宗 大本山 池上本門寺) is an active Nichiren Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Imakumano Kannon-ji

Part of Sennyū-ji

Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Imakumano Kannon-ji is station 15 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Kumano cult temple in Kyoto dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....

Imamiya-bō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Imamiya-bō, fourteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch on a site that was, for nearly a millennium, a single...

Ishite-ji

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 51 of the Shikoku henro is the legendary birthplace of the entire pilgrimage tradition....

Ishiteji Temple, Matsuyama

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

At Temple 51 of Japan's most famous pilgrimage, a stone preserved for twelve centuries tells of sin, remorse, and redemption....

Ishiyama-dera

Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Ishiyama-dera is station 13 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Heian aristocratic Kannon devotion temple in Shiga dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....

Iwamoto-ji

Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Iwamoto-ji is the thirty-seventh stop on the Shikoku 88 and the only one enshrining five principal images simultaneously — Fudō Myōō, Shō Kannon, Amida Nyorai, Yakushi...

Iwanoue-dō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Iwanoue-dō is the twentieth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Rinzai Zen hall of the Nanzen-ji branch perched on a bluff above the Arakawa river....

Iwaya-ji

Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Iwaya-ji is the forty-fifth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and a designated National Scenic Beauty....

Iyadani-ji

Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Iyadani-ji is one of three reizan — spirit mountains — of Shikoku, places where the souls of the dead are traditionally felt to gather....

Iyo Kokubun-ji

Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Iyo Kokubun-ji is the 59th fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and one of the original kokubunji established in 741 by Emperor Shōmu's edict to protect the realm....