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Traditions

230 traditions, 4,485 sacred sites. Each tradition links the places that share its lineage.

Christianity

921

Buddhism

508

Hinduism

295

Roman Catholic Christianity

292

Islam

232

Celtic and Prehistoric

226

Indigenous

215

Ancient

119

Shinto

115

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

102

Pre-Columbian

101

Armenian Apostolic Christianity

85

Georgian Orthodox Christianity

76

Ancient Greek and Roman

73

Historical regional religious traditions

60

Taoism

57

Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition

54

Christian monastic tradition

50

Judaism

41

Multi-tradition

39

Prehistoric

37

Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity

35

Korean Buddhism

35

Talayotic Culture

35

Prehistoric/Megalithic

33

Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions

31

Theravada Buddhist

31

Ancient Egyptian

30

Regional religious heritage

28

Multi-faith

25

Nature Spirituality

20

Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories

20

Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia

20

Hellenistic Greek

17

Sikhism

17

Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhism

14

Romanian Orthodox Christianity

12

Christian pilgrimage tradition

10

Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations

10

Historic Theravada Buddhism

9

Mongolian traditional religion and sacred-land stewardship

9

Ancient Roman

8

Finnish Prehistoric

8

Ganapatya Hinduism

8

Korean Neo-Confucianism

8

Latter Day Saint Restoration traditions

7

Phrygian

7

Bronze Age and early nomadic ritual traditions

6

Historical Latin Christianity

6

Shingon Buddhism

6

Thai Theravada Buddhism

6

Theravada Buddhism

6

Zoroastrianism

6

Evangelical Lutheran Christianity

5

Historical Georgian and regional religious traditions

5

Inca

5

Khmer Theravada Buddhism

5

Korean Seon Buddhism

5

Lanna Theravada Buddhism

5

Lycian

5

Roman Catholic Christianity within Indigenous and Hispanic borderlands histories

5

Chinese Vietnamese folk religion

4

Jainism

4

Kumano Shinto, Buddhism, and Shugendō

4

Tendai Buddhism

4

Cham Hinduism

3

Eastern Catholic Christianity

3

Episcopal Christianity

3

Finnish Folk Religion

3

Historic Theravada Buddhist

3

Historical Danish Christian holy-spring tradition

3

Korean Seon Buddhist heritage

3

Mexica ceremonial tradition

3

Neolithic funerary traditions

3

Phoenician-Punic Religion

3

Protestant Christianity

3

Rinzai Zen Buddhism

3

Roman Catholic

3

Vietnamese imperial ancestor veneration

3

Bahai

2

Baltic-Finnic Iron Age Hillfort Tradition

2

Black Protestant Christianity

2

Finnish Prehistoric / Comb Ceramic Culture

2

Finnish Stone Age / Comb Ceramic Culture

2

Fuji worship and Shinto

2

Hossō Buddhism

2

Iron Age and Viking Age funerary traditions

2

Korean Confucianism

2

Korean ritual traditions

2

Layered local, Christian, and contemporary land-based traditions

2

Neolithic

2

Northern Thai Theravada Buddhism

2

Prehistoric Korean funerary and ritual tradition

2

Shinto and Shingon Buddhist sacred-landscape tradition

2

Ancient Carian

1

Andean Indigenous

1

Armenian and Yazidi sacred traditions

1

Bahá'í Faith

1

Baltic-Finnic / Finnish Iron Age Burial Culture

1

Baltic-Finnic Folk Religion

1

Baltic-Finnic Iron Age Mortuary Tradition

1

Cantonese Mazu devotion and Chinese Vietnamese communal religion

1

Caodaism

1

Catholic Christianity

1

Cham Hinduism and Vietnamese goddess devotion

1

Cham Shaivism

1

Chinese Mahayana Buddhist

1

Chinese Vietnamese folk religion and Buddhism

1

Chinese Vietnamese popular religion, Taoism, and Buddhism

1

Christianity (transitional)

1

Confucianism

1

Dewa Sanzan mountain worship, Shinto and Shugendō

1

Finnish Folk Belief / Hiisi Nature-Spirit Tradition

1

Finnish Iron Age / Early-Medieval Hillfort Tradition (Häme)

1

Finnish Iron Age / Medieval Frontier Fortification

1

Finnish Iron Age Burial Custom

1

Finnish Iron Age Hillfort and Medieval Fortification

1

Finnish Iron Age Hillfort Tradition (Baltic-Finnic/Tavastian)

1

Finnish Prehistoric (Bronze Age Cairn Burial)

1

Finnish Prehistoric (contested Neanderthal claim)

1

Finnish Prehistoric (Iron Age Water Burial)

1

Fuji worship, Shinto, Buddhism, and Shugendo

1

Gaelic Folklore / Christian Heritage

1

Hidden Christian and Roman Catholic traditions

1

Hidden Christian tradition

1

Hidden Christian tradition within a Shinto-Buddhist landscape

1

Hindu and Thai popular devotion

1

Historic Ayutthaya Theravada Buddhism

1

Historic Buddhist and/or Hindu

1

Historic Dvaravati Buddhism with current local observance

1

Historic Hinduism and Theravada Buddhism

1

Historic Khmer Hinduism and contemporary Thai Buddhism

1

Historic Khmer Mahayana Buddhism

1

Historic Khmer Shaivism and protected landscape stewardship

1

Historic Latin Christianity

1

Historic Shaiva Hinduism

1

Historic southern Thai Buddhism and landscape heritage

1

Historic Sukhothai Theravada Buddhism

1

Historical Buddhism

1

Historical Cham Hindu sanctuary and active Vietnamese folk cave-deity veneration

1

Historical Danish Christian pilgrimage tradition

1

Historical Theravada Buddhism and active heritage stewardship

1

Inca ceremonial and archaeological heritage

1

Indigenous Cultural Landscape / Contemporary Spirituality

1

Jōdo Buddhism

1

Jōdo Buddhism, Seizan Zenrin-ji school

1

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Hongwanji-ha

1

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Ōtani-ha

1

Kazakh Islam and Sufi sacred tradition

1

Kazakh sacred landscape and pilgrimage

1

Korean Buddhism (Jogye Order)

1

Korean folk religion and shamanic practice

1

Korean heavenly ritual

1

Korean heavenly ritual and Dangun commemoration

1

Korean mountain-spirit ritual and Buddhism

1

Korean shamanic ritual

1

Korean Sinseondo and national-origin devotion

1

Kōyasan Shingon Buddhism

1

Kriya Yoga and interfaith contemplative practice

1

Kumano Shinto and Shugendō

1

Living Theravada Buddhism with earlier Buddhist layers

1

Local sacred-land traditions

1

Lutheran Christianity

1

Mahayana Buddhism

1

Maronite Catholic Christianity

1

Medieval Swedish Frontier Fortification Heritage

1

Natural Heritage / Contemporary Spirituality

1

Nonsectarian Buddhism under Tendai and Jōdo custodianship

1

Norse religion and Viking Age funerary traditions

1

Northumbrian and Benedictine Christianity

1

Northumbrian Christian pilgrimage traditions

1

Ōbaku Zen Buddhism

1

Orthodox Christianity

1

Prehistoric / Contemporary Pagan

1

prehistoric and historic rock-carving traditions

1

Prehistoric and Silla-period rock-carving traditions

1

Prehistoric Korean funerary and megalithic traditions

1

Prehistoric mortuary and ritual landscape

1

Prehistoric mortuary and settlement heritage

1

Prehistoric ritual landscape

1

Pure Land Buddhism

1

Regional cultural heritage

1

Reiyukai

1

Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Daitoku-ji school

1

Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Engaku-ji school

1

Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Kenchō-ji school

1

Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Kennin-ji school

1

Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Myōshin-ji school

1

Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Nanzen-ji school

1

Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Shōkoku-ji school

1

Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Tōfuku-ji school

1

Ritsu Buddhism

1

Roman Catholic and Cistercian heritage

1

Roman Catholic Christianity and Augustinian canon life

1

Roman Catholic Christianity and early Christian heritage

1

Roman Catholic Christianity and Rosminian religious life

1

Roman Catholic Christianity in the Philippines

1

Romantic Antiquarian / Contemporary Spirituality

1

Ryukyuan religion

1

Sámi Indigenous Religion

1

Scottish Folklore / Contemporary Spirituality

1

Shingon Buddhism, Chisan school

1

Shingon Buddhism, Daikaku-ji school

1

Shingon Buddhism, Omuro school

1

Shingon Buddhism, Sennyū-ji school

1

Shingon Ritsu Buddhism

1

Shōtoku-shū Buddhism

1

Southern Thai Theravada Buddhism

1

Southern Vietnamese Mother Goddess devotion

1

Stone Age Saimaa Rock Painting Tradition

1

Sufism

1

Tamil Hinduism with Vietnamese devotional participation

1

Thai Forest Tradition within Theravada Buddhism

1

Thai Hindu and Brahmanical popular devotion

1

Thai Theravada forest Buddhism

1

Theravada Buddhism and Hariphunchai memorial tradition

1

Theravada Buddhism and local Buddha-image devotion

1

Theravada Buddhism and monastic memorial devotion

1

Theravada Buddhism and Thai royal ceremony

1

Theravada Buddhism with Chinese-Thai devotional reception

1

Theravada Buddhism with historic Mahayana and Srivijaya layers

1

Toltec ceremonial tradition

1

Trúc Lâm Vietnamese Zen Buddhism

1

Tứ Ân Hiếu Nghĩa Buddhism and public memorial practice

1

Vietnamese Confucianism

1

Vietnamese folk mountain-deity veneration

1

Vietnamese folk religion and Buddhism

1

Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhism and Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương memory

1

Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhism in the Lâm Tế lineage

1

Viking Age funerary traditions

1