Sacred Places
27 places found
BuddhismBengal Buddhist Association
Kolkata · India · monastery
Founded in Kolkata in 1892 by Kripasaran Mahasthavir, the Bengal Buddhist Association, known in Bengali as Bauddha Dharmankur Sabha, raised the Dharmankur Vihara at Bow Barracks in 1903 and has worked for over a century to revive the Dharma in eastern India.
BuddhismBhot Bagan Math
Ghusuri · India · monastery
A brick monastery on the Hooghly riverside at Ghusuri, Howrah, founded in 1776 as the first Tibetan Buddhist religious foundation on the plains of India and still known popularly as Mahakal Math for the Tibetan deity images once installed in its sanctum.
BuddhismBuddha Samyak Darshan Museum and Memorial Stupa
Vaishali · India · stupa
A newly completed museum and memorial stupa at Vaishaligarh in Bihar, raised entirely in pink sandstone beside the ancient Pushkarni pond to enshrine bodily relics of Gautama Buddha and to house a museum of Buddhist heritage.
BuddhismBuddha Temple, Buddhamangalam
· India · monastery
A modest Buddhist shrine in the village of Buddhamangalam, Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, housing a seated Buddha image, one of the early centres of the Buddhist tradition in this coastal region of South India.
BuddhismBuddha Temple, Perunjeri
· India · monastery
A small, quietly venerated shrine in Perunjeri, Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu, housing an ancient Buddha image that local families have tended for generations with the simple devotion of an oil lamp.
BuddhismChaneti Buddhist Stupa
Chaneti · India · stupa
Near the village of Chaneti in Haryana's Yamunanagar district, not far from the ancient city-site of Sugh, the Chaneti Buddhist Stupa is a hemispherical mound of fired brick raised in the third century BC. It is one of the stupas the Chinese pilgrim-monk Hiuen Tsang recorded around the ancient city of Shrughna, and it survives today as a quiet, ASI-conserved monument rather than an active place of worship.
BuddhismChaukhandi Stupa
Sarnath · India · stupa
Rising beside the road into Sarnath, the Chaukhandi Stupa is a terraced brick mound raised in the Gupta era, said to mark the ground where the newly awakened Buddha found again the five ascetics who had once turned away from him. A Mughal octagonal tower, added in 1588, crowns its summit.
BuddhismDhamek Stupa
Sarnath · India · stupa
The largest surviving monument at Sarnath's Deer Park, traditionally venerated as the ground of the Buddha's first sermon, and one of Buddhism's four principal pilgrimage sites.
BuddhismDragon Palace Temple
Kamptee · India · temple
A Buddhist sanctuary in Kamptee, near Nagpur, raised in 1999 through the friendship of an Indian mayor and a Japanese philanthropist, sheltering a carved sandalwood image of the Buddha beneath a roofline drawn from Japanese Temple design.
BuddhismGiriyak Stupa
Giriyak · India · stupa
A Gupta-era cylindrical stupa raised around 500 CE on a hilltop above the Panchane River in Bihar's Nalanda district, Giriyak Stupa is known locally as Jarasandha-ka-Baithak, the throne of the epic Magadha king Jarasandha.
BuddhismKesaria
· India · monastery
An ancient Buddhist stūpa near the River Gandak in Bihar's East Champaran district, Kesaria preserves one of the most imposing monuments of the Mauryan era, a towering earthen and masonry structure first raised under Emperor Aśoka.
BuddhismKesaria Stupa
Kesariya · India · stupa
Rising some 104 feet above the plains of East Champaran, Kesaria is among the tallest Buddhist stupas ever excavated, a tiered brick mandala begun in the Mauryan era and raised to its present form under the Pala kings.