Then the Blessed One said: “Furthermore, monks, there are four places on earth that laymen and laywomen endowed with faith should recall all their lives. Which four? The places where, [as pilgrims], they will say: ‘Here the Blessed One was born; here, he attained unsurpassed complete enlightenment; here he set in motion, three times and in twelve ways, the Wheel of the Dharma; and here he attained the state of complete nirvana.’ Going to these places, after my death, they should circumambulate the shrines there and pay homage to them…. All those who do so, with minds filled with faith for me, will, at the time of their death, be reborn in heaven.” (Strong, 47)