Visit the Buddhist town of Ramu in Bangladesh and experience the warm Bengali Buddhist temples

About 14 kilometers east of Cox’s Bazar is a town called Ramu, surrounded by a dozen or so Buddhist temples of Bengalis or Rakhaing people. Some temples have a very long history, and there are some exquisite Buddha statues preserved in the temples. Going to Ramu is to visit these temples. Take a tuk-tuk from Ramu to a village called Ramkot to find the Historical Rangkut Buddhist Pilgrimge, about 5 kilometers south of Ramu. The Rangkut Temple has a slightly exaggerated golden gate, which is slightly different from the Burmese temples. In fact, the Rangkut Temple is a temple of Bengali Buddhists. The Rangkut Temple is built on a small hillside, under which there is a lush ancient tree, which is said to have been planted by a Chinese traveler named Hu Nsan in the 7th century. According to the host of the temple on the mountain, this Hu Nsan traveled along the footsteps of the Buddha, but I couldn't find any information about this traveler. Take off your shoes and walk up the steps to the small hillside, and find that the temple is full of local Bengali Buddhist believers. People sit cross-legged and eat vegetarian meals. The aisle next to it is filled with several layers of fruit offerings. It seems to be a local Buddhist festival. Next to the place where people sit, there is a small hall with a large half-body clay Buddha statue. Then the Thai host in the temple came over and introduced this temple in very standard English. According to him, the Rangkut Temple was built by King Ashoka in 308 BC, and even there is a Buddha relic in this clay half-body Buddha statue. I don't know whether the historical background of this temple is as long as the host said, but the whole temple is indeed very ordinary, the architecture is messy, and the monks' houses, pagodas, law halls, kitchens, etc. are crowded together without any rules. But regardless of whether the host is bragging or not, the Rangkut Temple still left a deep impression on me, because this Bengali temple obviously carries the enthusiasm of the Bengalis. Unlike the indifference of the Burmese temple monks to outsiders, the Bengali monks show all kinds of curiosity, show a strong desire to communicate when they can't communicate, and are very enthusiastic about taking pictures. The host even personally invited to eat, and after I politely declined, he gave a handful of tribute fruits and insisted on letting me accept it. After saying goodbye to the enthusiastic host and believers of the Rangkut Temple, I went to find the next temple hidden in the woods-Lamapara Bara Khyang, which will be a completely different character temple.