Top rated Buddhist temples in Bhutan

Experience the best that Bhutan has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 29 places from Buddhist temple category.

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Paro Taktsang
Buddhist temple
Sacred mountainside monastery with ornately designed temples & art, plus legendary meditation caves.
4.80 (2.7K reviews)
Punakha Dzong སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་། image
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Punakha Dzong སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་།
Buddhist temple
Imposing palace & fortress dating to the 17th century in a serene setting overlooking the river.
4.80 (973 reviews)
Trongsa Dzong ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང། image
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Trongsa Dzong ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང།
Government office
👍👍 With it’s deeply rooted connection to the raven crown, this stunning Dzong or fortress is a purveyor to the coming crown princes of the kingdom, for once they become Trongsa penlop, then history is written and the royal bloodline continues. Stunningly built on a carved ridge that drops into a breath...
4.80 (71 reviews)
Phajoding Monastery ཕ་ཇོ་ལྡིང་། image
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Phajoding Monastery ཕ་ཇོ་ལྡིང་།
Buddhist temple
👍👍 Its a place where you will forget all the pains and suffering of 2 hours hike from base. Its a holy sites too where you get enough space to gain spiritual merits as there are lots of temples where you can wash your sins which you have committed earlier. All the best and if you are looking for 1 day...
4.80 (57 reviews)
Tamshing Lhakhang གཏམ་ཞིང་ལྷ་ཁང་། image
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Tamshing Lhakhang གཏམ་ཞིང་ལྷ་ཁང་།
Buddhist temple
Humble Buddhist temple & monastery constructed in 1501, showcasing traditional wall paintings.
4.80 (47 reviews)
Buddha Dordenma Statue སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མ། image
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Buddha Dordenma Statue སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མ།
Buddhist temple
Towering Buddha statue overlooking the valley & perched above a temple filled with art & exhibits.
4.70 (3.7K reviews)
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Dochula Chorten
Buddhist temple
4.70 (811 reviews)
Kurjey Lhakhang སྐུ་རྗེས་ལྷ་ཁང་། image
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Kurjey Lhakhang སྐུ་རྗེས་ལྷ་ཁང་།
Buddhist temple
Buddhist monastery with scenic surrounds & a dress code requiring kabney & rachu for visitors.
4.70 (96 reviews)
Jamphel Lhakhang བྱམས་་པ་ལྷ་ཁང་། image
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Jamphel Lhakhang བྱམས་་པ་ལྷ་ཁང་།
Buddhist temple
In Buddhist lore, this temple is one of 108 built by a 7th-century Tibetan king atop a huge demon.
4.70 (75 reviews)
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Druk Wangyel Monastery
Buddhist temple
👍👍 Druk Wangyal Monastery and Chorten was built to commemorate the flushing of Indian insurgents from Bhutan in 2003. It was built under patronage of Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck.
4.70 (67 reviews)
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Chumphu Nye
Buddhist temple
👍👍 Chumphu Nye (Sacred/ Holy Place) is located 30 mins drive and 4 hours walk from Paro Town. It is located towards north-east direction of Paro Doteng village. Throughout the hike one will enjoy tranquil forest, streams, rivers and waterfalls. It is the seat of Dorji Phagmo ( Sanskrit : Vajravarahi)....
4.70 (56 reviews)
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Karbandi Monastery
Buddhist temple
👍 It’s an ancient Buddhist monastery, around 5 kms from phuentsholing town but the best way is to walk from the midst dense forest. You’ll find Extremely amazing breath taking view points on the way. A must visit!
4.60 (835 reviews)
Rinpung Dzong རིན་སྤུང་རྫོང་། image
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Rinpung Dzong རིན་སྤུང་རྫོང་།
Buddhist temple
Buddhist fortress featuring several shrines & chapels, plus wall paintings & grand architecture.
4.60 (501 reviews)
Chorten Kora མཆོད་རྟེན་སྐོར་རར། image
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Chorten Kora མཆོད་རྟེན་སྐོར་རར།
Buddhist temple
Striking whitewashed stupa dating from 1740, an annual pilgrimage destination.
4.60 (74 reviews)
Dechen Phodrang Monastery བདེ་ཆེན་ཕོ་བྲང་། image
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Dechen Phodrang Monastery བདེ་ཆེན་ཕོ་བྲང་།
Buddhist temple
Buddhist complex in a mountain landscape with a monastic school & centuries-old chapel murals.
4.60 (37 reviews)
National Memorial Chhorten རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྗེས་དྲན་མཆོད་རྟེན། image
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National Memorial Chhorten རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྗེས་དྲན་མཆོད་རྟེན།
Buddhist temple
Iconic Buddhist stupa featuring a gilded spire, a vase-shaped upper story & 4 ornate portals.
4.50 (1.1K reviews)
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Zangtopelri
Buddhist temple
👍👍 Beautiful temple and well maintained park. Its around 45 years old structure. Good place to sit and relax, can come with family, kids, friends. It has Colourful fountain inside it which is quite an attraction specially for kids. During the day it’s quite a serene.
4.50 (331 reviews)
Kyichu Lhakhang སྐྱིད་ཆུ་ལྷ་ཁང་། image
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Kyichu Lhakhang སྐྱིད་ཆུ་ལྷ་ཁང་།
Buddhist temple
Ancient, preserved Buddhist temple with many traditional features, statues & an intimate atmosphere.
4.50 (317 reviews)
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