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The Kanji Tsuglagkhang is a small square building on an open eastwards sloping site. It is built of mud brick walls on stone foundations which have been widened at the bottom of the wall. The exterior walls of the temple are plastered with a mud mortar, which is covered by several layers of whitewash. The most distinctive features externally are the two projecting brick string courses, carried on cantilevered willow sticks, which run around three sides of the building at roof level.
On the south side is an open entrance porch formed by extending the two side walls. The porch has a central pillar with a crudely-carved capital, and its ceiling is lower than the temple. The parapets of the porch walls, with their two string courses, are also lower than the main walls. There is a small central doorway on the south, which provides the only light for the interior. On this entrance wall paintings were discovered under some layers of whitewash. Fragments of such a painting layer were found on the southern side wall of the porch as well.
Within the chapel a central pillar and carved capital carry the main east-west beam, which is also supported at the outer ends by unusual brackets and struts. Secondary beams run from the beam to the north and south walls, with wooden boards over.
It was reported that the temple had once had an upper roof, removed some 40 years before, when the roof timbers were reused in the building of the new village temple. This upper roof was a solely protective device, only 3-4ft/1m high, with a south entrance and a short central pillar.
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