Sacred Places
85 places found
BuddhismAngkor Wat
Siem Reap · Cambodia · temple
The largest religious monument on earth, built for Lord Vishnu by Suryavarman II in the 12th century and in continuous worship ever since: a living Theravada Buddhist Temple whose five towers stand on the Cambodian flag.
BuddhismBangka Lungshan Temple
Taipei (Wanhua) · Taiwan · temple
Taipei's mother Temple to Guanshiyin, founded by Fujian settlers in 1738 in the old Bangka quarter: a front hall to the bodhisattva of compassion and a rear hall of more than a hundred Taoist and folk gods, whose Guanyin statue survived the 1945 bombing intact.
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.
BuddhismBorobudur
Magelang · Indonesia · temple
The world's largest Buddhist Temple: a ninth-century mandala in stone on Java's Kedu Plain, nine terraces rising through the three realms to 72 latticed stupas, each sheltering a seated Buddha.
BuddhismBoudhanath Stupa
Kathmandu · Nepal · stupa
The largest spherical stupa in Nepal, its all-seeing Buddha eyes watching over the kora walked daily by the Tibetan Buddhist community of Boudha, the heart of Vajrayana practice in the Kathmandu Valley.
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.
BuddhismChin Swee Caves Temple
Genting Highlands · Malaysia · temple
A Chinese Buddhist Temple carved into a granite hillside in the Genting Highlands of Pahang, Malaysia, built over eighteen years by the resort's founder in devotion to Patriarch Qingshui, a Song-dynasty monk revered across the Hokkien diaspora as a miracle-working deity.