Pass of 108 chortens and Himalaya views.
Cliffside Paro Taktsang monastery hike.
Giant golden Buddha gazing over the Thimphu valley, filled with 125,000 smaller ones.
The gold-covered national stupa of Laos, said to hold a relic of the Buddha, with a November lantern festival.
Majestic riverside fortress-monastery.
Night climb of 5,500 steps to a sacred footprint shared by four religions, timed for sunrise and the peak’s shadow.
Medieval capital explored by bicycle — the Gal Vihara rock Buddhas and the royal palace ruins.
Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple.
Sri Lanka’s first capital: giant brick dagobas, monastic ruins and the 2,300-year-old sacred Bodhi tree.
Golden monastery perched on a volcanic plug, guarded by monkeys and nat spirits.
Ruins of one of the great Buddhist monasteries of ancient Bengal.
Karst caves stuffed with Buddhas amid sugarloaf mountains.
Angkor Thom’s central temple, where 200 giant serene stone faces stare from 54 towers.
Stilt villages, floating gardens and leg-rowing fishermen on a Shan hills lake.
Birthplace of the Buddha, UNESCO-listed.
Gilded boulder balanced on a cliff edge, crowned by a small stupa.
The Temple of Dawn: a porcelain-encrusted riverside tower you can climb for views across the Chao Phraya at sunset.
Cycle among the lotus-pond temples of Thailand’s first capital, a serene UNESCO site without Ayutthaya’s crowds.
A 46-metre gold-leaf reclining Buddha in Bangkok’s oldest temple, also the birthplace of Thai massage.
71-metre Buddha carved into a river cliff in Sichuan — the largest stone Buddha in the world.
Read the Tripitaka (Pali Canon), the foundational scriptures of Theravada Buddhism
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