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Traditions

318 traditions, 5,056 sacred sites. Each tradition links the places that share its lineage.

Christianity

930

Buddhism

533

Roman Catholic Christianity

433

Hinduism

322

Islam

282

Celtic and Prehistoric

226

Indigenous

220

Shinto

129

Ancient

119

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

102

Pre-Columbian

102

Armenian Apostolic Christianity

85

Georgian Orthodox Christianity

76

Ancient Greek and Roman

72

Historical regional religious traditions

60

Taoism

59

Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition

54

Christian monastic tradition

50

Lutheran Christianity

47

Judaism

44

Orthodox Christianity

42

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

Roman Catholic

30

Regional religious heritage

28

Multi-faith

25

Historical Latin Christianity

22

Sikhism

21

Hellenistic Greek

20

Nature Spirituality

20

Roman Catholic Christianity and California Indigenous histories

20

Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia

20

Indigenous and pre-Christian regional traditions

19

Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhism

14

Romanian Orthodox Christianity

12

Christian pilgrimage tradition

10

Indigenous traditions

10

Indigenous traditions of culturally affiliated Nations

10

Ancient Roman

9

Historic Theravada Buddhism

9

Mongolian traditional religion and sacred-land stewardship

9

Finnish Prehistoric

8

Ganapatya Hinduism

8

Korean Neo-Confucianism

8

Orthodox

8

Latter Day Saint Restoration traditions

7

Phrygian

7

Bronze Age and early nomadic ritual traditions

6

Native American

6

Shingon Buddhism

6

Thai Theravada Buddhism

6

Theravada Buddhism

6

Zoroastrianism

6

Historical Georgian and regional religious traditions

5

Inca

5

Jainism

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

Shaivism

5

Sufism

5

Chinese folk religion

4

Chinese Vietnamese folk religion

4

Evangelical Lutheran Christianity

4

Kumano Shinto, Buddhism, and Shugendō

4

Shinto / Buddhism

4

Tendai Buddhism

4

African traditional religions

3

Ancient Greek & Roman

3

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

Shaktism

3

Tibetan Buddhist traditions

3

Vietnamese imperial ancestor veneration

3

Aboriginal Australian

2

Bahai

2

Baltic-Finnic Iron Age Hillfort Tradition

2

Black Protestant Christianity

2

Celtic / Ancient Roman

2

Christianity / Islam

2

Finnish Prehistoric / Comb Ceramic Culture

2

Finnish Stone Age / Comb Ceramic Culture

2

Fuji worship and Shinto

2

Hinduism / Buddhism

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

Local snake-spirit traditions

2

Neolithic

2

Northern Thai Theravada Buddhism

2

Prehistoric Korean funerary and ritual tradition

2

Shinto and Shingon Buddhist sacred-landscape tradition

2

Shugendō and Shingon Buddhism

2

Tibetan Buddhism

2

Vaishnavism

2

Ajivika

1

Algonquin Anishinaabe sacred-landscape traditions

1

Ancient Carian

1

Ancient Greek and Roman religion

1

Ancient Punic religion

1

Ancient Roman religion

1

Andean Indigenous

1

Armenian and Yazidi sacred traditions

1

Bahá'í Faith

1

Balinese Hinduism

1

Baltic-Finnic / Finnish Iron Age Burial Culture

1

Baltic-Finnic Folk Religion

1

Baltic-Finnic Iron Age Mortuary Tradition

1

Bemba traditions

1

Buddhism and Hakusan mountain devotion

1

Buddhism and Thai spirit devotion

1

Buddhist heritage

1

Buddhist mountain worship

1

Cantonese Mazu devotion and Chinese Vietnamese communal religion

1

Caodaism

1

Catholic / Indigenous

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 — Byzantine heritage

1

Confucianism

1

Cornish Christian saint tradition / Contemporary varied devotional practices

1

Dakota sacred-landscape relationships

1

Dewa Sanzan mountain worship, Shinto and Shugendō

1

Digo ancestral tradition

1

Djabugay sacred relationships with Country

1

Ecumenical Christianity

1

Esoteric Buddhism and mountain asceticism

1

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity

1

Etruscan and ancient Roman traditions

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

Fuji-kō mountain devotion

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 ancestral rites and Śaiva traditions

1

Hindu and Sufi traditions

1

Hindu and Thai popular devotion

1

Hindu pilgrimage and Mahābhārata traditions

1

Hinduism — Nath tradition

1

Hinduism — Shaivism

1

Hinduism / Sikhism

1

Hinduism / Tibetan Buddhism

1

Hinduism / Tibetan Buddhism / Kirat traditions

1

Hinduism, Agastya and Śaiva traditions

1

Hinduism, Narmada pilgrimage

1

Hinduism, Rāmāyaṇa and Śaiva traditions

1

Hinduism, Śaiva tradition

1

Hinduism, Śrī Vaiṣṇava tradition

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 Christianity

1

Historical Danish Christian pilgrimage tradition

1

Historical Theravada Buddhism and active heritage stewardship

1

Icelandic folklore concerning Norse religion and Christian conversion

1

Inca ceremonial and archaeological heritage

1

Indigenous Cultural Landscape / Contemporary Spirituality

1

Indigenous traditions of the Columbia and Willamette regions

1

Iranian religious and epic traditions

1

Japanese ascetic traditions

1

Japanese filial-piety legend and Shinto observance

1

Jōdo Buddhism

1

Jōdo Buddhism, Seizan Zenrin-ji school

1

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Hongwanji-ha

1

Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Ōtani-ha

1

Judaism / Christianity

1

Kazakh Islam and Sufi sacred tradition

1

Kazakh sacred landscape and pilgrimage

1

Khmer Hindu sacred-water heritage / Cambodian Buddhist pilgrimage

1

Kichwa Otavalo traditions associated with Inti Raymi

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

1

Kriya Yoga and interfaith contemplative practice

1

Kumano Shinto and Shugendō

1

Leya sacred-landscape traditions; other regional relationships require distinct attribution

1

Living Theravada Buddhism with earlier Buddhist layers

1

Local Hindu sacred-water traditions

1

Local Malagasy ancestral traditions

1

Local protective-spirit traditions

1

Local sacred-land traditions

1

Local sacred-water traditions

1

Lunda sacred and chiefly traditions / Chishinga sacred-landscape traditions

1

Mahayana

1

Mahayana Buddhism

1

Mam Maya traditions

1

Maronite Catholic Christianity

1

Maya religious heritage

1

Medieval Swedish Frontier Fortification Heritage

1

Monpa Tibetan Buddhism

1

Muisca sacred narrative

1

Native American / Catholic

1

Native Hawaiian relationships with wai and ʻāina

1

Native Hawaiian sacred narrative

1

Natural Heritage / Contemporary Spirituality

1

Ngāti Hinehika ancestral traditions

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

Phoenician / Ancient Greek & Roman

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 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

1

Shingon Buddhism and Fudō devotion

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

Shinto and mountain asceticism

1

Shinto water-deity worship

1

Shōtoku-shū Buddhism

1

Shugendō and Fudō devotion

1

Southern Thai Theravada Buddhism

1

Southern Vietnamese Mother Goddess devotion

1

Stone Age Saimaa Rock Painting Tradition

1

Tamil Hinduism with Vietnamese devotional participation

1

Tamil Shaiva Hindu traditions

1

Tenrikyo

1

Thai Forest Tradition within Theravada Buddhism

1

Thai Hindu and Brahmanical popular devotion

1

Thai Theravada forest Buddhism

1

Thai-Chinese folk religion

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

Tibetan Buddhism and Khawa Karpo devotion

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

Zulu ancestral and healer traditions

1