char dham
चार धाम cār dhāmThe four abodes: a pilgrimage to four holy sites at the cardinal ends of India, Badrinath, Dwarka, Puri, and Rameshwaram, traditionally linked to Shankara. Completing all four is among the most revered of Hindu pilgrimages.
Explained in depth in The Char DhamWhere this term appears
- Jagannath Puri and the Ratha Yatra Temples
A quiet close Puri is one of the four Char Dham , the cardinal pilgrimage seats of India, and it can be read alongside the others in our account of the Char Dham.
- The Kumbh Mela Temples
It is the same gesture that draws pilgrims to the great routes described in The Char Dham and to the shrines described in What is a Hindu Temple, made here on the largest scale the world allows.
- What is Tirtha? Pilgrimage in Hindu Life Temples
The Char Dham , the four abodes set at the cardinal points of India, bind the land together by asking the pilgrim to travel its corners, with Mount Kailasa standing beyond as the axis of the whole.
- Where was Dvārakā? The search for Krishna's drowned city Journal
It is the western seat of the Char Dham , the four cardinal pilgrimages that bound the subcontinent into a single sacred geography.