Angkor Wat Temples
Meditate
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This is a photograph of the Angkor Wat temple complex with the sun rising at the rear end of the image.
Rise Unto The Lord
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This is a photograph of central tower placed at the heart of the Angkor Wat temple complex. This central tower can be entered by way of a steep staircase and has a statue of Lord Vishnu at top. This tower "was at once the symbolic center of the nation and the actual center where secular and sacred power joined forces," writes researcher Eleanor Mannikka in the book, "Angkor: Celestial Temples and Khmer Empire".
The Lord The King
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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.
Royal Bath
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This is an image of one of the four baths inside the Angkor Wat temple complex. A gallery with beautifully carved bas-reliefs of apsaras (dancing damsels of Indra's Court) runs around the bath. Here, we see the sun rising up and lights the inner sanctuary and bath to another sunny day.
Entranced
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This is a photograph of the Buddha statues lit by the setting sun at the entrance gallery at Angkor Wat temple complex. Rays of the sun form intricate patterns as they sieve through the delicately carved windows.
Prasat Banteay
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This is an image of the inner enclosure of Banteay Srei.
The pediment on Prasat on right shows a scene from the ancient epic Mahabharata that the God of sky Indra causing the rain to put out the fire set up by the God of Fire Agni. This fire was created to kill the snake king Takshaka who lived in the Khandava forest. Two heroes Arjuna and Krishna are helping Agni by creating a shield from the arrows to stop the rain from Indra.
The pediment on Prasat on left shows Lord Siva seated on the mountain Kailash's his home with his consort Parvati. The mountain is presented by titering. Each tier has the people and animals who are very panic. In the middle of the pediment, demon king Ravana is shown with ten heads and twenty arms. He is shaking the mountain which Siva is sitting on. Siva uses his toe to press the mountain down and traps Ravana under the mountain more than 1000 years.
The pediment in the central Prasat shows Siva seated next to Parvati who is not his wife yet at this moment. Kamadeva is shooting his love arrow to Siva to make him fall in love with Parvati. Siva gets angry because of that action so that he gazes at Kama by his third eye and burn him into ash. The mountain in this pediment is shown to break into pieces.
Library in North
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Image of the facade of the north library situated near the entrance of the innermost enclosure of the Banteay Srei. The lowest level pediment has a detailed bas-relief portraying Lord Krishna killing Kansa, King of Mathura and his maternal Uncle, an episode taken from the Hindu epic Mahabharata. As seen in the bas-relief, Krishna is holding Kansa’s hair and is trying to behead him with a sword.
Dvaarpalas
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Dvarpalas (guards) of the Mandapa ( Sanctuary) of the Tribhuvanamaheshvara ( now Banteay Srei) temple. Intricate bas-relief carvings give the temple a name Banteay Srei, Citadel of Woman.
Heavenly Climb
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Image if the central tower of Angkor Wat symbolizing sacred Mount Meru. The very steep stairways represent the difficulty of ascending to the Kingdom of God.
Enlighten
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Buddhist Stupa of Lokeshwara inside Central Sanctuary of the Preah Khan Temple, Angkor