The Chinese Buddhist Temple sarnath

This cute temple building is located in a different lane near Vaishali Restaurant and was founded in 1939 while the gate and compound wall were erected in 1952. The building is in a bright shade of red and yellow and has beautiful-looking Chinese designs. There are Chinese lanterns hanging on the walls and the whole campus has very calm surroundings with a small garden.
Inside the Chinese Temple are various statues of different sizes and the atmosphere is very tranquil even though the temple seems to be understated. There is a huge map of the route taken by the Chinese scholar Hiuen-Tsang in the 7th Century AD in the time of the great king Harshavardhana. A placard in the yellow walls of the temple indicates that the piece of land on which this temple was built earlier used to be a vegetable plot and mangrove.
An important feature of the Chinese Buddhist Temple is the representation of life of Buddha through photos and write-ups in Hindi, English and Chinese on a huge board. It gives a thorough insight of the same in the absence of pilgrims that are present at most sites in Sarnath.