Site Name: Sarnath
Date: 1939
Subject: Approach to the temple
CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Sarnath attracted Buddhists from Burma all the way east to Japan who, over the twentieth century, established national monasteries on the periphery of the excavated site and developed educational institutions there. This collection of Prof. Asher includes Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai monasteries, Mulagandhakuti Vihara, Sarnath Railway station, Naya Tal and Sarangnatha Mahadev Temple-presumably the origin for the name ‘Sarnath’.