Bodhisattva or future Buddha

Maitreya (Miroku Bosatsu)

Explore sacred places with reviewed veneration relationships to Maitreya (Miroku Bosatsu).

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Diskit Gompa, Ladakh

Ladakh, India

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Buddhism

Jōraku-ji

Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Jōraku-ji is the only temple of the Shikoku 88 dedicated to Miroku Bosatsu, the future Buddha....

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Shingon Buddhism

Kōryū-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Miroku’s poised stillness within one of Kyoto’s earliest temples. Kōryū-ji remains an active Shingon Buddhism temple....

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Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia

Amarbayasgalant Monastery

Baruunbüren, Selenge, Mongolia

The entry covers the Amarbayasgalant monastic complex together with its documented immediate sacred landscape, not every site in the surrounding valley.

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UNESCOKorean Buddhism

Beopjusa Temple

Boeun-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

Beopjusa Temple occupies a broad monastic precinct beneath Songnisan's peaks. Its living Buddhist community, Maitreya devotion, Palsangjeon wooden pagoda, and protected...

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Korean Buddhism

Bongeunsa Temple

Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Bongeunsa faces one of Seoul’s most intensely commercial districts, but its identity is not simply “calm beside skyscrapers.” The temple preserves worship, a major...

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Korean Buddhism

Mireuk-ri Temple Site

Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

Mireuk-ri Temple Site, officially Chungju Mireukdaewonji, preserves a Goryeo Buddhist complex in the Haneuljae basin....