Sacred Places
85 places found
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.
BuddhismHall of Guanyin
· People's Republic of China · monastery
The Guanyin Hall (觀音殿) is the principal ancillary sanctuary within East Asian Buddhist Temple complexes, devoted to Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, venerated across China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam in a rich variety of sacred forms.
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.
HinduismLake Manasarovar
Burang · People's Republic of China · sacred natural site
A high freshwater lake beside Mount Kailash in Tibet, revered as a Shakti Peetha by Hindus and held sacred by Buddhists, Jains and the Bon as one of the world's holiest bodies of water.
BuddhismLalitgiri
Lalitgiri · India · monastery
The oldest known Buddhist monastic complex in Odisha, Lalitgiri rises on a low hill in Jajpur district where excavated stupas, monasteries and sculpted Buddha images mark a site continuously inhabited by monks from around the first century BCE to the thirteenth century CE.
BuddhismLumbini
Lumbini · Nepal · pilgrimage site
The birthplace of the Buddha, where the Maya Devi Temple shelters the marker stone at the exact birth spot and Ashoka's pillar of 249 BCE still reads: here the Buddha was born.
BuddhismMahabodhi Temple
Bodh Gaya · India · temple
The Temple that rises over the spot where the Buddha attained enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree. Its 50 m brick tower, raised in the 5th to 6th century CE on the site of Emperor Ashoka's shrine, stands beside a living descendant of the original tree and the Vajrasana, the Diamond Throne.
BuddhismMaha Stupa at Amaravati
Amaravathi · India · stupa
A ruined Buddhist mahachaitya on the banks of the Krishna River in Andhra Pradesh, once the most richly carved stupa in the Buddhist world and now a protected archaeological sanctuary.
BuddhismMarichi Temple
· India · monastery
A rare sacred space in Baleswar district, Odisha, where Hindu and Buddhist devotion meet under one roof, sheltering tantric, Jain, and Buddhist icons carved in the late eleventh century alongside an actively worshipped form of Goddess Durga.