Varanasi Day Two Part Two

A few minutes after that last post we went and visited the Buddhist museum in Varanasi. I touched stone carvings from the 6 century and saw some as old as the 3rd century-B.C. Most of the items in the museum were buried when the Mughal Empire tried to stamp out Buddhism in India, and were underground until excavated by an archeologist about 100 years ago. We got to see the ruins of the old Buddhist temple.

We visited a Jain temple (had to take off all leather, shoes, and wash hands and mouth before entering).

Then a re-creation of the original Buddhist temple runes built (funded) in the 1930's by Japanese Buddhists.

A quick lunch/snack thing, and we were off to get classic pressure point massage. They ruled.

I'm too tired to think straight. Will try to write more tomorrow.