rajeev lochan- a vishnu temple??

A few months ago, I happened to visit the temple-town of Chhattisgarh i.e., Rajim. Not exactly to see the temples but for some other reason, though once in the city, I thought there was no harm in visiting the famous TEMPLE SITE. To my amateur eyes it didn’t look like a Vishnu temple at all. The statues, the sculptures, and the architectural style together cried out in unison that it was once a Buddhist monastery or meditation centre! So I walked over to the stone slab on which all the information about the temple was inscribed. “It must clarify all my doubts and affirm my gut feeling about the temple being an ancient Buddhist Meditation Centre,” I thought. How could the learned experts in history who would have put up all those historical details be mistaken, afterall ? Now my own knowledge of history is very limited, but then you didn’t need to possess the knowledge of a historian to contradict the fallacious information put up on display. A little common sense was enough. The slab lent credence to the popular theory and reaffirmed the commonly held belief that RAJEEV LOCHAN TEMPLE COMPLEX, is dedicated to LORD VISHNU, a Hindu deity. But clearly one didn’t need very perceptive eyes to see that almost all the statues installed in the inner shrines of the temples belonged to a much later era. The stone was of a different quality, and so was the architectural design. Besides, what was the life-size statue of BUDDHA doing in a Hindu temple compound? He was not sitting there in the capacity of Vishnu's incarnation, as some might want to argue, for had it been so, he would have been kept inside the temple, not outside the temple doorway as it actually was.
It doesn’t really matter much to me whether the temple complex is Hindu or Buddhist. What pains me though, is the shameless distortion of history by our learned historians. They are experts, and we want to repose our trust in them. To think that such simple things as I have mentioned may have escaped their observation would be too far-fetched a presumption. So, it wouldn’t be far removed from truth if I should hold them guilty of intentional misrepresentation of history. The question that bothers me now is, “Whom to trust?” God save a country where even "intellectuals?" have sold their integrity!
Nevertheless, it feels good to think of the distant past; what a surge of ritual-free meditation-centric Buddhism it would have been back in the 8th century, when the temple was built! If only we had at least a few masters with us even today!