Virtual sacred journeys — a curated guide to pilgrimage videos across India's sacred geography and its Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Islamic and Christian traditions.
For those unable to travel in person, these videos offer a virtual darshan of India's most sacred sites. Where this site already has fuller written coverage of a place or tradition, the entry links to that page as well.
A video journey along the traditional 84-kos circumambulation of the entire Braj region, the pilgrimage route that traditionally visits all twelve sacred forests discussed in our Saints section.
A video playlist touring Vrindavan's major temples, useful as a visual companion to this site's written coverage of the town's Gaudiya Vaishnava saints and sacred sites.
A YouTube channel dedicated to sacred journeys across Braj, offering ongoing video coverage of the region's temples, festivals and devotional life.
A virtual tour of Radha Kund, the sacred lake where Raghunatha Dasa Goswami practiced his intense devotion and where Ananta Das Babaji later served as Mahanta — both discussed in our Saints section.
A video circumambulation of Navadwip's nine islands, birthplace of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and the site Bhaktivinoda Thakura worked to rediscover — see our full profile of his identification of Mayapur.
A tour of Chitrakoot, the forest region where Rama, Sita and Lakshmana are said to have spent part of their exile — one of the major pilgrimage sites of the Ramayana tradition.
A virtual pilgrimage to Mount Kailash guided by Sadhguru, the founder of the Isha Foundation profiled in our Masters section, discussing the mountain's significance within yogic tradition.
Visual footage of Mount Kailash, revered across Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Bon traditions as the abode of Shiva and one of the most physically remote major pilgrimage sites in the world.
An overview of the Jagannath Temple in Puri, home to the deity discussed in our God carousel and the site of the original Ratha Yatra chariot festival that ISKCON later carried to San Francisco.
A virtual tour of the 108 Divya Desham, the sacred Vishnu temples celebrated by the Tamil Alvar poet-saints, considered among South Indian Vaishnavism's most important pilgrimage circuits.
A pilgrimage guide to the twelve Jyotirlingas, the most sacred Shiva shrines across India, each associated with a distinct manifestation of Shiva as a column of light.
A guide to the 51 Shaktipeeths, sites across the Indian subcontinent traditionally said to mark where parts of the goddess Sati's body fell, forming one of Hinduism's most extensive sacred geographies.
An overview of India's wealthiest temples by donated assets and endowment, offering a different lens on the scale of devotional life at these major pilgrimage centers.
A virtual tour of major Jain temples across India, reflecting the country's ancient tradition of Jain pilgrimage and temple architecture.
A guide to India's major Buddhist pilgrimage sites, including locations connected to the Buddha's life and later centers of Buddhist learning and practice.
An overview of India's most significant Gurudwaras, the houses of worship central to Sikh religious life and pilgrimage.
A guide to major dargahs across India — the shrines of Sufi saints discussed in our Institutions section, which remain significant pilgrimage sites for devotees of multiple faiths.
A closer look at the Islamic shrines specific to Hyderabad, one of India's historically significant centers of Sufi devotional practice.
A visual tour of the world's largest mosques, several located in India and neighboring countries with deep histories of Islamic architecture and pilgrimage.
An overview of the world's largest churches, offered here as part of this site's broader interfaith approach to sacred pilgrimage across traditions.
A documentary exploring folk beliefs and practices sometimes associated with tantra in popular culture. For a serious, scholarly treatment of actual tantric philosophy, see our profile of Kashmir Shaivism or Dr. Robert Svoboda's documented apprenticeship in the Aghora tradition.
A documentary on Nag Panchami and related snake-worship traditions practiced at certain temples across India, part of the country's broader folk-religious landscape.