Deities
Akṣobhya at Key Monastery
Akṣobhya — the Imovable Buddha of the East (Vajra Family)
Śākyamuni at Alchi — Buddhist Art Masterpiece
Alchi Monastery — 11th-century Tibetan Buddhist art and murals
Amitābha Buddha — West-direction of Pure Land
Amitābha — the Buddha of Infinite Light
Amitābha Buddha — Buddha of Infinite Light / Western Pure Land
Amitābha — Buddha of Infinite Light and the Western Pure Land
Avalokiteśvara at Tabo, Spiti
Avalokiteśvara — the Bodhisattva of compassion at the "Ajanta of the Himalayas"
Avalokiteshvara — Bodhisattva of Compassion
Avalokiteshvara — Lord of Compassion (Lokeshvara)
Mahābodhi Tree of Bodh Gaya
Mahābodhi — the bodhi tree lineage
Buddhist Circuits — India's Buddhist Heritage
Buddhist Pilgrimage Circuits — From Buddha's Birth to Mahaparinirvana
Chenrezig
Bodhisattva of Compassion
Dalai Lama at Dharamshala
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama — Tenzin Gyatso
Guru Padmasambhava — The Lotus Born Master
Guru Padmasambhava (Padma Sambhava) — Lotus Born Master, Patron Saint of Tibet
Padmasambhava at Tawang
Guru Rinpoche — founder of Vajrayāna in the Himalayas
Guru Sri Lanka
Teacher Deity
Hajo
Mixed Religious Site
Hayagrīva Mādhava of Hājo
Hayagrīva — one of the last Buddhist-Hindu co-worship shrines
Padmasambhava at Hemis
Guru Rinpoche — founder of Tibetan Buddhism
Indra
King of Gods — God of Thunder & Rain
Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi — Sacred Fig Tree of Anuradhapura
Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi — oldest existing tree in Sri Lanka and sacred Buddhist pilgrimage site
Kanda Deva
Mountain God
Kataragama
God of Kataragama
Kelaniya Raja
King of Kelaniya
Kiri Muhuda
Goddess of Mercy
Kiri Vehera
Goddess of Milk
Kushinagar — Buddha's Mahāparinirvāṇa
Kushinagar — where Buddha attained Final Nirvāṇa
Śākyamuni Buddha at Bodh Gaya
Śākyamuni Buddha — the site of enlightenment, supreme tīrtha of world Buddhism
Maitreya at Thiksey — Future Buddha of Ladakh
Maitreya — the Future Buddha at Thiksey Monastery
Lumbinī — Birthplace of the Buddha
Lumbinī — where Queen Māyādevī gave birth to Siddhārtha Gautama
Lumbinī — Birthplace of the Buddha
Lumbinī — UNESCO World Heritage birthplace of the Buddha
Nalanda — The Ancient Monastic University
Nalanda — the world's oldest university and Buddhist learning center
Mahayana Sri Lanka
Mahayana Buddhism
Maitreya — The Future Buddha
Maitreya — Future Buddha (弥勒, 弥勒佛)
Maitreya
The Future Buddha
Manjushri — Bodhisattva of Wisdom
Manjushri — The Bodhisattva of Wisdom (文殊師利)
Hiuen Tsang Memorial
Hiuen Tsang — the Chinese pilgrim scholar
Pemayangtse Deities
Pemayangtse Lamasery Deities
Phra Phrom
Phra Phrom (Thai Brahma) of the Erawan Shrine
Gṛdhrakūṭa — Vulture Peak
Gṛdhrakūṭa — Buddha's favorite teaching rock
Rumtek Monastery Deities
Sikkim Buddhist Deities
Ruwanwelisaya
Crystal Dagoba
Saman
Saman Deviyo — guardian-deity of Adam's Peak
Sanchi Great Stūpa
Sanchi — Emperor Aśoka's pan-Buddhist stūpa
Sārnāth — First Turning of the Wheel
Sārnāth — Buddha's first teaching (Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta)
Sathara Kanda Deva
Fourteen Mountain Gods
Śākyamuni Buddha at Bodh Gaya
Buddha — the site of enlightenment, supreme tīrtha of world Buddhism
Sri Dalada Maligawa
Temple of the Tooth
Sri Lankan Buddhist Deities
Sri Lankan Buddhist Deities
Sri Lankan Folk Deities
Indigenous Spirits
Tara
The Buddhist Goddess of Compassion
Tārā at Shey — Ladakhi Vajrayāna
Green Tārā — female bodhisattva of Ladakh
Tara (Mahavidya)
Ugra Tārā — second of the 10 Mahavidyas
Ārya Tārā at Namdroling, Bylakuppe
Tārā — the swift-liberating female bodhisattva of Tibetan Buddhism
Tara — The Divine Savior Goddess
Tara — the 'Savior' goddess of Vajrayana Buddhism
Tawang Buddhist Deities
Tawang Monastery Deities
Tawang Buddhist Deities
Tawang — Major Vajrayana Buddhist monastic complex in Arunachal Pradesh
Three Protectors of Sikkim
Three Protectors — Guardians of the Sikkimese Buddhist realm (Rig Sum Gönpo)
Licchavi Vaiśālī
Vaiśālī — Buddha's favorite republic
Akṣobhya at Key Monastery
Anuradhapura Maha Sthan
Anuradhapura — ancient Buddhist capital of Sri Lanka
Dalai Lama at Dharamshala
Gṛdhrakūṭa — Vulture Peak
Guru Padmasambhava
Guru Sri Lanka
Hiuen Tsang Memorial
Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
Victory Sacred Fig Tree
Kanda Deva
Kelaniya Raja
Kiri Muhuda
Kiri Vehera
Kushinagar — Buddha's Mahāparinirvāṇa
Śākyamuni at Alchi
Licchavi Vaiśālī
Maha Sthan
Mahayana Sri Lanka
Mahābodhi Tree of Bodh Gaya
Maitreya at Thiksey
Mañjuśrī at Nālandā Mahāvihāra
Mañjuśrī at Nālandā Mahāvihāra
Mañjuśrī — the Bodhisattva of wisdom, at the great Nalanda university
Nalanda — the monastic university site
Padmasambhava at Hemis
Padmasambhava at Tawang
Pemayangtse Deities
Rumtek Monastery Deities
Ārya Tārā at Namdroling, Bylakuppe
Saman
Sanchi Great Stūpa
Sathara Kanda Deva
Sri Dalada Maligawa
Sri Lankan Folk Deities
Tara
Three Protectors of Sikkim
Tārā at Shey — Ladakhi Vajrayāna
Vaishali Deities
Ancient City Deities
Vaishali Deities
Sacred Texts
Practices
Festivals
Religions
Temples
Ajanta — The Painted Caves of the Sahyadri
Ajantā — Where Buddhist Art Reached Its Apex
Kushinagar — Where the Buddha Attained Parinirvana
Kuśinārā — The Place of the Great Passing
Lumbini — Birthplace of the Buddha
Lumbinī — Where the Buddha Was Born
Mahabodhi Temple — Bodh Gaya
The Great Awakening — Where the Buddha Attained Nirvāṇa
Nalanda — The World's First Great University
Nālandā Mahāvihāra — Where Ten Thousand Monks Studied
Sanchi — The Great Stupa
The Mound of the Dhamma — Oldest Buddhist Structure in the World
Sarnath — The Deer Park of the First Sermon
Isipatana — Where the Buddha Set the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion