Buddhism

Mount Putuo (Pǔtuó Shān)

Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

Mount Putuo is an island monastery-city in the East China Sea, venerated for over a thousand years as the earthly dwelling place of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion....

Mount Takao Yakuō-in

Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Mount Takao Yakuō-in (高尾山 薬王院 有喜寺) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Mount Yudono

Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Mount Yudono is the culminating mountain of the Dewa Sanzan pilgrimage of rebirth in Yamagata....

Mt. Amnye Machen

Maqên, Qinghai, China

Amnye Machen rises to 6,282 meters from the grasslands of the Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, an entire mountain range wrapped in the great bend...

Mt. Bandai

Inawashiro, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Mount Bandai rises in Fukushima as a transformed sacred peak. Called 'rock ladder to the sky' in ancient times, the mountain was reshaped by an 1888 eruption that created...

Mt. Chokai

Yuza, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Rising 2,236 meters at the border of Yamagata and Akita Prefectures, Mount Chokai has drawn mountain worshippers since ancient times....

Mt. Dinghushan

Dinghu District, Guangdong, China

Dinghushan rises above the city of Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province, a mountain of ancient subtropical forest sheltering Qingyun Temple, one of the most important Buddhist...

Mt. Emei Shan

双水井, Sichuan, China

Mount Emei rises 3,099 meters from the Sichuan Basin, one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China and the bodhimanda of Samantabhadra, the bodhisattva of universal...

Mt. Fanjing, Guizhou, China

Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou, China

Fanjingshan rises 2,570 meters from the forests of northeastern Guizhou Province, a UNESCO World Heritage Site recognized for its extraordinary biodiversity and revered as...

Mt. Fuji

Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Mount Fuji rises 3,776 meters in nearly perfect symmetry—a form so iconic it has come to represent Japan itself....

Mt. Gu Shan

Gushan, Fujian, China

Gu Shan, Drum Mountain, rises from the eastern suburbs of Fuzhou in Fujian Province, its summit crowned by a rock that resonates like a drum in wind and rain....

Mt. Haku

Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Blanketed in snow for much of the year, Mount Haku—the White Mountain—has drawn pilgrims for over thirteen centuries....

Mt. Ishizuchi

Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Mount Ishizuchi stands as the highest peak in western Japan and one of the Seven Sacred Mountains....

Mt. Iwaki

Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

Rising 1,625 meters above Aomori Prefecture, Mount Iwaki dominates the Tsugaru region as its highest peak and spiritual guardian....

Mt. Jiuhua Shan

Chizhou, Anhui, China

Jiuhua Shan rises from the Anhui countryside as one of China's Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains, dedicated to Ksitigarbha — the bodhisattva who vowed not to achieve...

Mt. Kaimon

Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

At the southern tip of Kyushu, Mount Kaimon rises in such perfect conical form that locals call it 'Satsuma Fuji.' This 924-meter peak has drawn worshippers since ancient...

Mt. Katsuragi

Gose, Nara Prefecture, Japan

The Katsuragi Mountains are where Japanese mountain mysticism was born. In 634 CE, En no Gyoja—the legendary founder of Shugendo—entered the world at the foot of these...

Mt. Mai Ji Shan

Maiji, Gansu, China

Maijishan rises from the forests of Gansu Province as a solitary haystack-shaped cliff, its red sandstone face honeycombed with 194 caves containing approximately 7,800...

Mt. Meili Xue

Zogang County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Kawagebo, the 6,740-meter summit of the Meili Snow Mountains on the Yunnan-Tibet border, is the highest unclimbed peak over 6,000 meters in the world....

Mt. Omine (Mount Sanjō)

Tenkawa, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Mount Omine is the headquarters of Shugendo—Japan's tradition of mountain asceticism—and perhaps its most intensely sacred site....

Mt. Ontake

Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Japan's second highest volcano has drawn pilgrims for over a thousand years. White-robed devotees still purify under waterfalls before ascending Mount Ontake, following...

Mt. Pu Tuo Shan

Putuo District, Zhejiang, China

Putuo Shan is a small island in the East China Sea that serves as the earthly home of Guanyin — the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the most beloved figure in Chinese...

Mt. Qian Shan, Liaoning

Wenquan Subdistrict, Liaoning, China

Qian Shan — Thousand Mountain — rises from the Liaoning plain in northeastern China with 999 peaks, each said to resemble a lotus petal....

Mt. Song Shan

Gongyi, Henan, China

Mount Song is the central mountain of China's Five Great Mountains and the cosmological center of the directional Wuyue system....

Mt. Targo and Lake Dangra

Targo, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Dangra Yumco and Dargo Mountain form a sacred married couple in the Bon tradition, Tibet's pre-Buddhist indigenous religion....

Mt. Tiantai Shan

Tiantai County, Zhejiang, China

Mount Tiantai is the birthplace of Tiantai Buddhism, the first purely Chinese school of Buddhist philosophy....

Mt. Wu Tai Shan

Taihuai, Shanxi, China

Mount Wutai is the earthly home of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, identified in the Avatamsaka Sutra as residing on a Clear Cool Mountain in the northeast....

Mt. Yoshino

Yoshino, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Mount Yoshino is where Japanese mountain mysticism was born. In the 7th century, the ascetic En no Gyoja achieved spiritual awakening here and founded Shugendo—the path of...

Musashi Kokubunji

Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan

Musashi Kokubunji (武蔵国分寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

Myoho-ji

Suginami City, Tokyo, Japan

Myoho-ji (妙法寺) is an active Nichiren Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Myōshin-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

A vast Rinzai head temple ordered around training and lineage. Myōshin-ji remains an active Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Myōshin-ji school temple....

Naejangsa Temple

Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea

Naejangsa is famous when maples turn, but its strongest historical fact is not seasonal color....

Nagao-ji

Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Nagao-ji is the eighty-seventh of the eighty-eight Shikoku temples — the second-to-last, set in the open Nagao district of Sanuki under an enormous camphor canopy....

Nago-ji

Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Nago-ji — Fudaraku-san Nago-ji — is the 33rd and final station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, set on a forested mid-slope of Mt. Nago in Tateyama, Chiba....

Nakayama-dera

Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Nakayama-dera is station 24 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism — Nakayama branch temple in Hyogo dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....

Naksansa Temple

Yangyang, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Naksansa faces the East Sea from a coastal slope where Avalokitesvara devotion has been cultivated for centuries....

Namo Buddha

Kavrepalanchok, Bagmati Province, Nepal

In the hills southeast of Kathmandu, a stupa marks where an early incarnation of the Buddha made the ultimate sacrifice....

Nan'endō (Kofuku-ji)

Part of Kofuku-ji

Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Nan'endō (Kōfuku-ji) is station 9 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Hossō school temple in Nara dedicated to Fukūkenjaku Kannon....

Nankōbō

Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 55 of the Shikoku henro is the only one of the 88 whose name ends in 'bō' — priest's lodging — a vestige of its origin as a sub-temple of the great Bekku Ōyamazumi...

Nanzen-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Imperial retreat transformed into a head temple of Rinzai Zen. Nanzen-ji remains an active Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Nanzen-ji school temple....

Nariai-ji

Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Nariai-ji is station 28 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Hashidate Shingon-shū temple in Kyoto dedicated to Shō Kannon....

Naritasan Shinsho-ji

Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Naritasan Shinsho-ji, stands in Narita. At Naritasan Shinsho-ji, Shingon Buddhism, Chisan school guides custody. Prayer at Naritasan Shinsho-ji addresses Fudō Myōō....

Negoro-ji

Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Negoro-ji stands at 365 metres on the slopes of Mt. Aomine, deep in the cedar forest of the Goshikidai plateau....

Nichirin-ji

Daigo, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Nichirin-ji sits on the eighth station of Mt. Yamizo, the highest peak in Ibaraki....

Ninna-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Imperial memory and Shingon practice among Omuro’s late cherries. Ninna-ji remains an active Shingon Buddhism, Omuro school temple....

Nishi Hongan-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

A vast congregational home for hearing the Dharma of Amida. Nishi Hongan-ji remains an active Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Hongwanji-ha temple....

Nishiarai Daishi

Adachi City, Tokyo, Japan

Nishiarai Daishi (西新井大師 總持寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Niukanshofu Shrine

Kudoyama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Niukanshofu Shrine (丹生官省符神社) is the shrine immediately associated with Jison-in at the beginning of the Choishi-michi approach.