The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.
Buddhist temple where three million people come at New Year to ward off bad luck — and where the incense-smoke ritual is part of the visit.
Mongolia’s oldest Buddhist monastery, walled by 108 stupas on the site of Genghis Khan’s capital, Karakorum.
Majestic riverside fortress-monastery.
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.
Ruins of one of the great Buddhist monasteries of ancient Bengal.
Birthplace of the Buddha, UNESCO-listed.
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