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Travel Cambodia: Bayon Temple at Angkor and its mysterious giant stone faces.
As you begin to explore the possibility of a trip to Cambodia between vaccine recommendations, query week, photos from other travelers, circuits backpackers, etc, for this mysterious country in Southeast Asia in a vacation, you can not help side in their stunning locations Bayon Temple at Angkor and its mysterious giant stone faces.
Angkor Thom was a fortified city built between the early eleventh century and the late twelfth century AD during the reign of Suryavarman I and Jayavarman VII. Because it was built for a long time by successive kings, has two centers in the city and different architectural styles and sculpture. Angkor Thom, located just north of Angkor Wat is the largest building complex in the area of Angkor.
complex Bayon temple was built under the direction of Buddhist Mahayana ruler Jayavarman VII, who ascended the throne of the kingdom Khmer Angkor in 1181 AD. Erected room for Buddhist worship, but later was restored and used as a Hindu temple. Various forms of Hindu and Buddhist worship were practiced side by side and successively in the ancient royal courts of Southeast Asia.
kings of the classical period promoted the idea (known as "devaraja") that had an intersection of the ruling king and a God validation. Usually, the Hindu god chosen for this personal identification was Siva, but sometimes it was Vishnu, or for some, a pious Buddhist origins royalty. Khmer temples so often portray the ruling king as god incarnate, whose shrine is located inside a monument on earth modeling design of the cosmos and the heavens.
represented Faces at Bayon clearly resemble familiar faces on statues portraits of Jayavarman VII. Given his Buddhist leanings, it is believed that the huge faces that portray him in semi - divine as a "Bodhisattva", a visionary who conceived in Mahayana Buddhism, which postponed the entry into Nirvana in order to stay on the ground helping others to salvation. The Bodhisattvas are like Mahayana Buddhist saints.
Four faces, facing the cardinal points, are carved on the sides of fifty-four towers standing in the temple of Bayon. The conservation of many of the towers is poor and it is difficult to know exactly how all carved towers. More than 200 smiley faces giant stones have been preserved, but it may have ever been two hundred towers, each with four faces.
carvings on the outer walls of the towers of Bayon bas-reliefs representing historical stories heroic and Scenes Khmer daily life. Jayavarman VII was an able military commander, who repelled the attacks of the Champa kingdom before becoming king Khmer and make a massive effort to build stone temples and other monuments.
Ultimately, it was the Siamese kingdom based in what is now is Thailand, which sacked Angkor in 1431 and ended the regional power of the kingdom.
