Tradition guide
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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Jokhang Temple
Chengguan District, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
For nearly fourteen hundred years, Jokhang Temple has stood at the center of Tibetan Buddhism, housing what is believed to be the most sacred Buddha image in existence....
Jomolhari
Paro / Tibet border, Bhutan
Jomolhari rises on the Bhutan–China border above communities whose pastoral life, monasteries and conservation work form a living mountain landscape....
Jōraku-ji
Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Jōraku-ji is the only temple of the Shikoku 88 dedicated to Miroku Bosatsu, the future Buddha....
Jōraku-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jōraku-ji, eleventh station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, was the route's only Tendai temple through the Edo period before fire and Meiji-era reform reshaped it....
Jōren-ji (Tokyo Daibutsu)
Itabashi City, Tokyo, Japan
Jōren-ji (Tokyo Daibutsu) (乗蓮寺) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....
Jōrin-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jōrin-ji, seventeenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a small Sōtō Zen temple founded as an act of warrior repentance....
Jōruri-ji
Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Jōruri-ji is the forty-sixth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and the first of eight in the Matsuyama cluster....
Jōsen-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Jōsen-ji is the third station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Saitama, Japan....
Jungakdan Shrine
Gongju-si, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
Jungakdan stands within Sinwonsa on Gyeryongsan and addresses the mountain’s guardian spirit....
Jūraku-ji
Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Jūraku-ji is Temple 7 of the Shikoku 88, in Awa, Tokushima. The 'Temple of Ten Joys' offers two specialized intercessions: an eye-healing Jizō beside the Hondō and a row...
Kabusan-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kabusan-ji is a Tendai mountain temple in the hills north of Takatsuki, traditionally founded by En no Gyōja in 697 CE and held to be the place where Bishamonten was first...
Kagaku-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Banshū Akō Taiunzan Kagaku-ji is the Asano clan's family temple in Akō, founded in 1645 and made permanent home of Akō's memorial culture by the 1701–1703 vendetta of the...
Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery
Eskdalemuir, Scotland, United Kingdom
Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery stands in Scotland as a major multi-faith site. At Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery, Buddhism provides the public sacred context....
Kakuman-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kakuman-ji is one of the few Tendai Shinsei-shū temples outside the school's Sakamoto heartland near Mount Hiei....
Kakurin-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Totasan Kakurin-ji in Kakogawa shelters two National Treasure halls — a 1112 Taishi-dō and a 1397 Main Hall whose three-style synthesis is rare in Japan....
Kakurin-ji
Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Kakurin-ji, Temple 20 of the Shikoku 88, sits high on Mount Washinō in Katsuura....
Kami Daigo-ji
Fushimi-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Kami Daigo-ji is station 11 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Daigo-ha temple in Kyoto dedicated to Juntei Kannon....
Kan'ei-ji
Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Kan'ei-ji (寛永寺) is an active Tendai Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Kande Vihara
Kaluwamodara–Aluthgama, Kaluwamodara–Aluthgama, Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Kande Vihara is a documented temple in Kaluwamodara–Aluthgama, Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, connected with Buddhism....
Kangchenjunga
Sikkim / Nepal border, India
Kangchenjunga stands within sacred geographies held by Lepcha communities and Tibetan Buddhist practitioners in Sikkim....
Kanheri Caves
Maharashtra, India
Kanheri sits within Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai, where a large group of excavated chambers preserves a Buddhist monastic landscape....
Kanjizai-ji
Ainan, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Kanjizai-ji is the fortieth stop on the Shikoku 88 — the first temple of the Ehime (Iyo) section, marking the pilgrim's transition from Tosa's discipline of asceticism...
Kanniya Hot Wells
Trincomalee, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
Kanniya’s hot wells near Trincomalee are associated with religious remembrance as well as bathing.
Kannō-ji
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Kannō-ji stands on the slope of Kabutoyama in Nishinomiya, holding one of Japan's three foremost Nyoirin Kannon images — a Heian-period figure carved by Kūkai in 830 from...
Kannon-in
Ogano, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-in — Shūkutsu-san Kannon-in — is the 31st station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage and the most physically demanding stop on the route....
Kannon-in
Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-in in Tottori, the 32nd station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, was founded in 1632 as the Tottori-Ikeda clan's domain temple....
Kannon-ji
Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-ji sits in a quiet residential street in Tokushima City, where the bell tower gate marks an unexpected threshold from ordinary domestic life into a small sacred...
Kannon-ji
Kan'onji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-ji shares its precinct on Mt. Kotohiki with Jinne-in at Temple 68, but the two temples have separate histories and separate identities....
Kannon-ji
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-ji is the twenty-first station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buzan-ha temple in central Chichibu locally known as Yano-dō ('Arrow Hall')....
Kannonshō-ji
Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Kannonshō-ji is station 32 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kanshin-ji
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Kanshin-ji holds one of the rare Japanese pairings where both the main hall and its principal image are National Treasures: the Heian-period Kondō and a seated Nyoirin...
Kanyō-ji
Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Kanyō-ji — Rokuon-zan Kanyō-ji — sits in the highland Kano basin of northern Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture....
Karla Caves
Maharashtra, India
Near Lonavala, Karla’s rock-cut Buddhist complex centres on a large chaitya prayer hall....
Kasamori-ji
Chōnan, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Kasamori-ji is the 31st station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a Tendai temple in the forested hills of Chōnan, Chiba....
Kasuga Village and Sacred Places in Hirado
Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Kasuga Village and Sacred Places in Hirado, stands in Hirado. At Kasuga Village and Sacred Places in Hirado, Hidden Christian tradition within a Shinto-Buddhist landscape...
Katsuō-ji
Minoh, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Katsuō-ji is station 23 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kōyasan Shingon-shū temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon....
Kegon-ji
Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Kegon-ji is station 33 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Gifu dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara
Kelaniya, Gampaha, Sri Lanka
On the banks of the Kelani River, Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara marks what tradition holds as the Buddha's third and final visit to Sri Lanka, when he settled a dispute...
Kencho-ji
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Kencho-ji, stands in Kamakura. At Kencho-ji, Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Kenchō-ji school guides custody....
Kennin-ji
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Zen discipline and tea memory in the streets behind Gion. Kennin-ji remains an active Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Kennin-ji school temple....
Kh'leang Pagoda
Sóc Trăng, Cần Thơ, Vietnam
Kh'leang Pagoda is a historic Khmer Theravada monastery in Sóc Trăng where worship of Śākyamuni Buddha is joined to monastic education, manuscript culture, and annual...
Khamar Monastery
Sainshand, Dornogovi, Mongolia
Khamar Monastery is a monastery in Sainshand, Dornogovi. For Khamar Monastery, the reviewed sources place it within Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia....
Khao Chakan Cave Temple
Khao Chakan, Sa Kaeo, Thailand
Khao Chakan Cave Temple occupies a limestone mountain in Sa Kaeo. ONEP identifies the complex as a Mahayana Buddhist temple within a mountain said to contain seventy-two...
Khao Klang Nok
Si Thep, Phetchabun, Thailand
Khao Klang Nok is UNESCO property 1662's second component and the largest surviving Dvaravati monument....
Khao Ok Thalu
Phatthalung, Phatthalung, Thailand
Khao Ok Thalu is the pierced limestone mountain emblem of Phatthalung, approximately 250 metres high according to Thailand's tourism directory....
Khar Zurkhnii Khukh Nuur
Tsenkhermandal, Khentii, Mongolia
In Tsenkhermandal, Khar Zurkhnii Khukh Nuur belongs to the documented landscape of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia....
Ki-mii-dera
Sa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Ki-mii-dera is station 2 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Kuze Kannon-shū temple in Wakayama dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....
Kichijō-ji
Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Kichijō-ji is the 63rd fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and the only temple on the route whose principal image is Bishamonten—Buddhist guardian-king of the north and one of 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.
What kinds of places are included?
The guide includes sacred landscapes, pilgrimage places, and ritual or historical sites where available.
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