Pigment Fine Art Print

Edition of 10

Print Size: 20 X 28 inch

This is a photograph of the gigantic faces carved on the temple towers at Bayon, the only Mahanaya Buddhist shrine at Angkor Wat.  With similarity of the faces carved at other statues, scholars conclude that it can be the face of the King Jayavarman VII.  Others say that the face belongs to Buddha,  the Bodhisattva of compassion, Lokeshwara.  Angkor scholar George Coedes has theorized that Khmer monarchs thought of themselves as “devaraja” (God King).  Bayon may be seen as representation of King Jayavarman as Buddha, the enlightened one.