Buddhism

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...

International Buddhist Temple

Richmond, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

International Buddhist Temple is a documented temple in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, connected with Buddhism....

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....

Jade Emperor Pagoda

Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Jade Emperor Pagoda is a Chinese Vietnamese temple of linked celestial courts. Its incense-darkened rooms centre on the Jade Emperor while other altars receive distinct...

Jampa Lhakhang

Dawathang_Dorjibi_ Kashingtsawa, Bumthang, Bhutan

Jampa Lhakhang in Bumthang is said to be one of 108 temples built by Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in a single day in 659 CE, each pinning a part of a supine demoness who...

Jataki Falls (Ja-taki)

Mount Takao, Tokyo, Japan

Ja-taki is a waterfall practice site associated with Takao Yakuō-in in Tokyo's western mountains....

Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi

Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

A cutting from the tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment was brought to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century BCE....

Jeondeungsa Temple

Ganghwa-gun, Incheon, South Korea

Jeondeungsa Temple is an active Korean Buddhist community inside Ganghwa's Samnangseong walls....

Jetavanaramaya

Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura District, North Central Province, Sri Lanka

Jetavanaramaya is a documented stupa in Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura District, North Central Province, Sri Lanka, connected with Buddhism....

Jigen-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jigen-ji, thirteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Sōtō Zen temple whose name — 'compassionate eyes' — is drawn from a verse of the Kannon Sutra....

Jikō-ji

Tokigawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jikō-ji on Mount Toki, founded in tradition in 673 and as an institution in 770 CE, is one of the oldest Tendai mountain temples in the Kantō....

Jindaiji Temple

Jindaiji Motomachi, Tokyo, Japan

Jindaiji Temple (深大寺) is an active Tendai Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

Jingo-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Kukai’s teaching memory reached by a demanding climb through Takao. Jingo-ji remains an active Shingon Buddhism temple....

Jingwansa Temple

Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Jingwansa stands where Seoul meets Bukhansan, but its sacred character is more specific than mountain quiet....

Jinne-in

Kan'onji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Jinne-in stands on Mt. Kotohiki in Kan'onji, Kagawa, sharing a single precinct with Kannon-ji at Temple 69 — one of the rarest configurations on the Shikoku 88....

Jion-ji

Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jion-ji is the twelfth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage, founded by tradition in the early ninth century by Ennin and named for Daji'en-si in Tang Chang'an —...

Jishō-ji (Ginkaku-ji)

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Higashiyama culture and Zen restraint across sand, moss, and wooded slope. Jishō-ji (Ginkaku-ji) remains an active Rinzai Zen Buddhism temple....

Jison-in

Kudoyama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Jison-in (慈尊院) is the temple at Kudoyama traditionally regarded as the lower-world entrance to Koyasan and the starting threshold of Choishi-michi.

Jizō-ji

Itano, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Jizō-ji is Temple 5 of the Shikoku 88, in Itano, Tokushima. Within the principal Enmei Jizō image is a smaller Shōgun Jizō said to be carved by Kūkai....

Jodo-ji

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Gokurakusan Jōdo-ji in Ono shelters two of the only Buddhist National Treasures in Hyōgo: the 1194 Jōdō-dō, a rare survival of Daibutsu-yō architecture, and Kaikei's...

Jōdo-ji

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 49 of the Shikoku henro stands in low hills south of Matsuyama, weathered and quiet beside its busier neighbours....

Jōdo-ji (Daijōritsu-in)

Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Jōdo-ji crowns a hill above the Onomichi waterway and serves as Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage station #9....

Jogyesa Temple

Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Jogyesa sits among offices, traffic, shops, and civic life, yet it is not a retreat from the city....