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Places

Sacred geography — where traditions live on the earth.

3 entries.

• Bodh Gaya

  The place in Bihar where Siddhārtha Gautama sat beneath a tree and became the Buddha. The navel of the Buddhist world.

  theravada buddhismmahayana buddhismtibetan buddhism

• Mecca

  The city in the Hijaz where the Prophet Muhammad was born and received the Qur'an, and toward which every Muslim prayer has turned for 1,400 years.

  islamsufism

• Varanasi

  The oldest continuously inhabited city in India and, by Hindu reckoning, in the world — a city built as a place to die well. Śiva's city on the Ganges.

  hinduism