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In 2018, The Cambodian Bible Society held the celebration for the printing of the Revised version of the original Khmer Old version (RKOV) (Hammond Version 1954,1962). This and all translations are available on youversion. Also in 2018, the Global Bible Initiative produced the Global Khmer Bible (GKhB). It is also currently translating the Old ...
Arthur L. Hammond (August 13, 1896 – July 21, 1979), an American citizen, was the first evangelical missionary in Cambodia. He trained at Nyack College and first arrived in Southeast Asia as a Christian & Missionary Alliance (CMA) missionary in 1921 and served for two years in Saigon, Vietnam. [1] Entering Cambodia in January 1923 with his ...
The Catholic Church in Cambodia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.Throughout the Church's history in Cambodia, Catholics made up a small percentage of the country's population, and a majority of adherents have been ethnically Vietnamese; in 2005, around two-thirds of the total number of Catholics in Cambodia were Vietnamese.
Find.Bible links to translations in over 6,100 languages and dialects (as of April 2018 relating to 2,141 separate ISO639-3 registered languages) WorldBibles.org lists over 14,000 internet links to Bibles, New Testaments and portions in "over four thousand languages" Online Bible—Read, Listen or Download Free: PDF, EPUB, Audio
Carved faces on a tower at the Bayon. The original name for the Bayon is Jayagiri (Khmer: ជ័យគីរី, Chey Kĭri) (or "Victory Mountain" or “Mountain of Brahma” ; “Jaya” - another name of Brahma and “giri” to mountain), with Sanskrit roots similar to Sīnhāgiri ("Lion Rock").
According to one Khmer legend attributed by George Coedes to a tenth century inscription, the Khmers arose from the union of the Brahmana Kambu Swayambhuva and the apsara ("celestial nymph") Mera. Their marriage is said to have given rise to the name Khmer and founded the Varman dynasty of ancient Cambodia. [32]
The Khom script (Thai: อักษรขอม, romanized: akson khom, or later Thai: อักษรขอมไทย, romanized: akson khom thai; Lao: ອັກສອນຂອມ, romanized: Aksone Khom; Khmer: អក្សរខម, romanized: âksâr khâm) is a Brahmic script and a variant of the Khmer script used in Thailand and Laos, [2] which is used to write Pali, Sanskrit, Khmer ...
Khmer inscriptions are the only local written sources for the study of ancient Khmer civilization. [1] More than 1,200 Khmer inscriptions of varying length have been collected. [2] There was an 'explosion' of Khmer epigraphy from the seventh century, with the earliest recorded Khmer stone inscription dating from 612 AD at Angkor Borei. [3]