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The Bayon was the last state temple to be built at Angkor, and the only Angkorian state temple to be built primarily to worship Buddhist deities, though a great number of minor and local deities were also encompassed as representatives of the various districts and cities of the realm.
Po Klaung Yăgrai ruled from 1167 to his death and is credited to have built many irrigation works and dams. He probably is the same person as Champa king, Jaya Indravarman IV.
Bas reliefs from the Bayon Temple depicting battle scene between Cham (wearing helmets) and Khmer troops The twelfth century in Champa is defined by constant social upheavals and warfare, Khmer invasions were frequent.
This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas in Indonesia for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location. Bali
Bayon Temple. 12th century. Boat racing is believed to have been celebrated in Cambodia since at least the reign of Jayavarman VII in 1181 AD. This was likely to commemorate the heroic victory of the Khmer navy, which liberated their land from the Cham troops of the Champa Kingdom in a boat battle on the Tonle Sap Lake. [5]
Date: Ca. 1185, between late 12th and early 13th centuries CE: Source: Needham, Joseph (1971). Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 4 Physics and Physical Technology, Part 3 Civil Engineering and Nautics.
The connection to the word "dust" also suggests that this temple was probably built as a tomb or mortuary temple for a king. [3] Pawon is from the word Per-awu-an (a place that contains dust), a temple that houses the dust or ashes of the cremated king. However, who was the personage that entombed here is still unknown.
Gedong Songo III is also a Shiva temple, one paired with a facing Nandi shrine and a Parvati shrine next to the Shiva shrine. Gedong Songo I is the oldest, with a square plan – an architecture that is predominant in Hindu and Buddhist-Hindu sites of central Java.