Sacred Places
85 places found
BuddhismSnake Temple
Bayan Lepas · Malaysia · temple
A Chinese Buddhist Temple in Bayan Lepas, Penang, built to honour the deified monk healer Chor Soo Kong and known across Southeast Asia for the wild pit vipers that make their home among its incense smoke.
BuddhismSongyue Pagoda
Dengfeng · People's Republic of China · pagoda
The oldest surviving brick pagoda in China, raised in 523 CE on Mount Song in Henan and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng.
BuddhismSujata Garh
Bakraur (Senanigrama) · India · stupa
A weathered stupa of ancient brick in the village of Bakraur, across the Phalgu River from Bodh Gaya, marking the place where the milkmaid Sujata offered rice-milk to the fasting Bodhisattva and opened the way to the Middle Path.
BuddhismTashiding Monastery
Tashiding · India · monastery
High on a heart-shaped ridge above the meeting of the Rathong Chu and Rangeet rivers, Tashiding Monastery is revered across Sikkim as its spiritual heart, a Nyingma seat founded in the seventeenth century in the shadow of Kanchenjunga. Pilgrims climb past a long line of carved mani stones to reach the Guru Lhakhang, the inner Temple of Guru Rinpoche himself.
BuddhismTashi Gomang Shedra Buddhist Monastery
· India · monastery
A Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary on the outskirts of Siliguri in West Bengal, India, established by monks in the tradition of the Dalai Lama and home to a soaring hundred-foot stupa attributed to the venerated Lama Kalu Rinpoche.
BuddhismTemple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
Kandy · Sri Lanka · temple
The relic house of the last Kandyan royal palace, where the left canine tooth of the Buddha rests within seven golden caskets, honoured three times daily in the thewava to the beat of hewisi drums.
BuddhismTsuklakhang Royal Chapel and Monastery
Gangtok · India · monastery
The Royal Chapel and Monastery of Sikkim's Chogyal kings, standing on Gangtok's Ridge as both a working Buddhist sanctuary and the ceremonial heart of a vanished Himalayan kingdom.
BuddhismWanbu Huayanjing Pagoda
Hohhot · People's Republic of China · pagoda
Known to most simply as the White Pagoda, this octagonal seven-storey tower rises on the eastern edge of Hohhot, built during the Liao dynasty to enshrine ten thousand copies of the Avatamsaka Sutra.
BuddhismWat Aranyik
Phitsanulok · Thailand · monastery
A ruined Sukhothai-period Buddhist Temple on the edge of Phitsanulok, Wat Aranyik takes its name from the Pali word for forest, recalling the monks who once practised meditation apart from the town.
BuddhismWat Benchamabophit
Bangkok · Thailand · monastery
Known across Thailand as the Marble Temple, Wat Benchamabophit stands in Bangkok's royal Dusit quarter, its Carrara marble walls and tiered gilded roofs reflected in the canal that rings its grounds.
BuddhismWat Chaiwatthanaram
Ayutthaya · Thailand · monastery
A seventeenth-century Khmer-style Temple complex on the Chao Phraya River, its central prang and cross-shaped cloister forming one of the most striking ruins within the Ayutthaya Historical Park.
BuddhismWat Chakkrawat Rachawat Woramahawihan
Bangkok · Thailand · monastery
A royal Buddhist monastery at the edge of Bangkok's Chinatown, its history reaching back to the founding of Rattanakosin and its grounds home to a pond once kept by a monk for a legendary crocodile.