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Temples (5)

Lotus Pond Temple
A temple courtyard with a pagoda and lotus pond
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Japanese-style Temple
A gate, a wide hall, a five-storey pagoda and raked gravel
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Korean-style Mountain Temple
A hall with painted eaves under green mountains
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Thai-style Wat
An ordination hall with tiered roofs and a golden chedi
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Pagoda on a Single Pillar
A small wooden pagoda on one pillar above a pond
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Meditation gardens (1)

Raked Gravel Garden
A raked-gravel garden for silent sitting
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Stupas and pagodas (4)

Great White Stupa
Walk around a great white stupa, as pilgrims do
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Golden Pagoda
A great golden pagoda on a marble terrace
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Watching-Eyes Stupa
A great white stupa with watching eyes and a ring of prayer wheels
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Sri Lankan Dagoba
A white bell-shaped dagoba beside a Bodhi tree
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Monasteries (3)

Forest Monastery
A quiet forest hall, huts and a walking-meditation path
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Cliffside Monastery
White halls on a ledge high on a cliff
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Steppe Monastery
A temple among felt tents on the steppe
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Meditation halls (1)

Meditation Hall
A silent hall with rows of cushions
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Chanting halls (1)

Chanting Hall
A red-and-gold hall for chanting and reciting the Buddha’s name
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Dharma halls (1)

Dharma Hall
A hall for a Dharma talk, with a teacher’s seat
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Memorial halls (1)

Memorial Hall
A quiet hall to remember the departed
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Holy sites and ruins (8)

Tree of Awakening
The place of awakening, beneath a great Bodhi tree
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Garden of the Birth
A white shrine, a lotus pond and a tall stone pillar
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Khmer Temple Mountain
Sandstone towers behind a moat and a causeway
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Stepped Stupa Mound
A great stepped mound crowned with stupas
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Cave Temple Cliff
A cliff face carved with niches and many Buddhas
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First Teaching Park
A great brick-red stupa in a park of deer
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Shrine of the Parinirvana
A white shrine with a golden reclining Buddha
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Ancient Monastic University Ruins
Brick ruins of a great monastic university
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Pilgrimage mountains (1)

Mountain Pilgrimage Gate
The gate at the foot of a pilgrimage mountain
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Himalayan monasteries (1)

Prayer Wheel Monastery
A whitewashed gompa with prayer wheels and flags
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At home (1)

Home Buddha Altar
A small altar at home for a few minutes of quiet
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Great statues (1)

Great Buddha Hillside
A huge seated Buddha above a stepped plaza
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Festivals and special nights (1)

Vesak Lantern Night
A night of lanterns on a lake before a lit Buddha
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These places are sample scenes: simplified, original, and not replicas of real places. Each needs review by people of that tradition before it is shown as the real thing.

Lotus Pond Temple

A timber main hall with a curved tiled roof, a lotus altar with an empty throne and halo, a pagoda, an incense burner, lanterns and a lotus pond.

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Japanese-style Temple

A temple in the Japanese style: a two-storey gate, a wide timber hall with a dark tiled roof, a five-storey pagoda, raked gravel, stone lanterns and maples.

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Korean-style Mountain Temple

A mountain temple in the Korean style: a hall with painted eaves in green, red, blue and yellow, a three-tier stone pagoda and a gate, with forested mountains behind.

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Thai-style Wat

A wat in the Thai style: a white hall with stacked red-and-gold roofs, a tall golden chedi, a standing figure on a lotus base, and an incense burner.

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Pagoda on a Single Pillar

A simplified model of a pagoda scene: a small timber shrine raised on a single pillar in a pond, with a path, a bell tower, a gate and a Bodhi tree.

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Raked Gravel Garden

A quiet garden of raked gravel, moss and rocks, with a bamboo grove, maples and an open timber pavilion with cushions.

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Great White Stupa

A large white stupa with a gold spire stands on a round stone plaza. A ring path circles it for walking clockwise (circumambulation), with prayer wheels, four gates, lamps and an incense burner.

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Golden Pagoda

A simplified model of a great golden pagoda in the Burmese style: a tall gold stupa on a round terrace, ringed by small gold stupas, four shrines and lamps.

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Watching-Eyes Stupa

A simplified model of a mountain stupa: a white dome with a gold tower and painted eyes on four sides, prayer flags streaming down, and a ring of prayer wheels for the clockwise walk.

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Sri Lankan Dagoba

A simplified model of a Sri Lankan dagoba: a white bell-shaped stupa on round terraces with a gold finial, a Bodhi tree behind a low railing, lamps and moonstone-style steps.

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Forest Monastery

An open timber hall with a golden Buddha, small huts among tall trees, and a long straight path with a rope handrail for walking meditation.

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Cliffside Monastery

A simplified model of a monastery on a high cliff ledge: white halls with red bands and gold roofs, a stone path, prayer flags and a terrace looking over the valley.

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Steppe Monastery

A monastery on a high grassland: a white temple with a red band and a golden curved roof, a ring of felt tents (gers), a stone cairn with blue silk and prayer flags, and snow mountains behind.

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Meditation Hall

A plain timber hall with tatami lines, glowing paper screens, a small altar and two rows of cushions facing the middle.

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Chanting Hall

A hall with a raised altar of the Buddha of Infinite Light and two attendants, lotus lamps, hanging lanterns, rows of kneeling mats, a wooden fish and a bell.

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Dharma Hall

A bright hall with a raised teacher’s seat before a Buddha figure, red banners and rows of cushions for listeners.

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Memorial Hall

A hall with niches along both walls, small candles and a central altar to Kṣitigarbha, the bodhisattva remembered at memorials.

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Tree of Awakening

A simplified model of the place of awakening: a great Bodhi tree with a flat stone seat beneath it, a tall stepped temple tower, a plaza and prayer flags.

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Garden of the Birth

A simplified model of the garden where the Buddha was born: a white shrine, a sacred pond with lotus, a tall stone pillar and shady trees.

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Khmer Temple Mountain

A simplified model of a Khmer temple: a stepped sandstone platform with a central tower and four smaller ones, and a causeway over a moat lined with low posts.

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Stepped Stupa Mound

A simplified model of a stepped mandala monument: five square terraces, three round terraces with rings of small stupas, and a central stupa.

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Cave Temple Cliff

A simplified model of a cave-temple cliff: a long rock face carved with many niches, each holding a small Buddha, a large central Buddha, a walkway and a river.

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First Teaching Park

A simplified model of the park where the first teaching was given: a great cylindrical stupa, low brick ruins, deer and shady trees.

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Shrine of the Parinirvana

A simplified model of the place of the Buddha’s passing: a white shrine with a golden reclining figure, a stupa behind it, and sal trees.

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Ancient Monastic University Ruins

A simplified model of the brick ruins of an ancient monastic university: rows of monk cells around a courtyard, and a stepped stupa foundation in the middle.

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Mountain Pilgrimage Gate

A three-door gate stands at the foot of a forested mountain, with a long stone stairway climbing toward pagodas on the slope. The stairway is a view; you stay in the courtyard.

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Prayer Wheel Monastery

A whitewashed monastery with a deep red band and golden ornaments, a row of turning prayer wheels, a small white chorten, prayer flags across the courtyard and snow mountains behind.

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Home Buddha Altar

A small room with a Buddha altar, a lotus lamp, incense, offerings of fruit and a mat.

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Great Buddha Hillside

A very large seated Buddha rests on a stone base above a broad stairway and a paved plaza, with stone lanterns, incense and green hills.

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Vesak Lantern Night

An evening festival scene: hundreds of glowing lanterns float on a lake before a large lit Buddha, with strings of lanterns along the shore and a place to sit.

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