Inner temple hallway lined with stone statues including Buddha at Angkor Wat
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- May 1997
- Location
- near Siem Reap, Cambodia
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1997. Terms of use
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- East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam: Photographs and text tell the story of the Cham and Khmer cultures of southern Vietnam and Cambodia, including a look at Angkor Wat and other great temples and cities. (Page 12)
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An arched inner temple hallway at Angkor Wat is lined with stone statues including a tall Buddha, seen towards the middle here. Several of the statues, even a headless one towards the front, are wrapped diagonally across their chests with gold or orange sashes.
Throughout Southeast Asia, carved stone or wood deity and ancestor statues often were (and are) dressed with real clothes that are replaced periodically at ritual events.
