Sacred Places
39 places found
BuddhismPagoda of Chengtian Temple
· People's Republic of China · monastery
An eleven-storeyed brick pagoda in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, built on the site of a Western Xia Buddhist temple and standing as the tallest pagoda in the region.
BuddhismPagoda of Cishou Temple
· People's Republic of China · monastery
A sixteenth-century stone and brick Chinese pagoda in the Buddhist Cishou Temple at Balizhuang, Haidian District, Beijing, originally named the Yong'an Wanshou Pagoda.
BuddhismSongyue Pagoda
· People's Republic of China · monastery
The oldest surviving brick pagoda in China, built in 523 CE on Mount Song in Henan and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng.
BuddhismWanbu Huayanjing Pagoda
· People's Republic of China · monastery
The eleventh-century Liao-era White Pagoda of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia, an octagonal seven-storey brick tower built to enshrine ten thousand copies of the Avatamsaka Sutra.
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BuddhismWat Aranyik
· Thailand · monastery
A historic Theravada Buddhist temple in Phitsanulok, northern Thailand, whose name evokes the ancient forest-dwelling tradition of Thai monastic practice.
BuddhismWat Benchamabophit
· Thailand · monastery
A royal Buddhist wat in Bangkok's Dusit District, beloved as the Marble Temple for its gleaming Italian-stone façade and refined late-nineteenth-century craftsmanship.
BuddhismWat Chaiwatthanaram
· Thailand · monastery
A seventeenth-century Khmer-style temple complex on the Chao Phraya River, among the most evocative ruins of the Ayutthaya Historical Park in central Thailand.
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BuddhismWat Chakkrawat
· Thailand · monastery
A historic royal Buddhist monastery in the heart of Bangkok's Chinatown, with origins stretching back to the founding years of the Rattanakosin kingdom.
BuddhismWat Chedi Yot Thong
· Thailand · monastery
A small historic Buddhist temple in Phitsanulok, central Thailand, treasured for its delicate Sukhothai-period lotus-bud chedi — the last of its style remaining in the province.
BuddhismWat Chet Yot
· Thailand · monastery
A fifteenth-century Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai whose seven-spired sanctuary recalls the Mahabodhi Temple of Bodh Gaya, drawing pilgrims born in the year of the Snake.
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BuddhismWat Chulamani
· Thailand · monastery
The oldest surviving Buddhist temple of Phitsanulok Province, set along the east bank of the Nan River and remembered for its ornate Khmer-style pagoda.
BuddhismWat Langka
· Cambodia · monastery
One of the five oldest Buddhist pagodas in Phnom Penh, founded in the fifteenth century to safeguard the Tripitaka and to host gatherings between Khmer and Sri Lankan monks.