Preah Vihear Temple
Preah Vihear Temple is an ancient Hindu temple built during the period of the Khmer Empire, that is situated atop a 525-metre cliff in the Dângrêk Mountains, in the Preah Vihear province, Cambodia.
ANGKOR World heritage. This blog are talking about Cambodia history and the wonderful heritage in Cambodia. From day to day a lot of tourist are coming to visit especially Angkor Wat that is the 7 wonder heritage in the world
CAMBODIA CLASSICAL DANCE
Classical Dance of Cambodia The epic poem of Rama (Ramayana) is believed to have been revealed to a Hindu holy man named Valmiki by Brahma, the god of creation. This religious literary work, dating from about ad 4, is known in various versions throughout India and Southeast Asia. In Cambodia, the story has been set to music and dance and performed by the Royal Ballet since the 18th century.
CAMBODIA KING SISOWATH
Sisowath I was king of Cambodia from 1904 to his death in 1927. He was the son of King Ang Duong and half brother of Prince Si Votha and King Norodom
APSARA DANCE (Robam Apsara)
Robam Tep Apsara
APSARA DANCE is the title of a Khmer classical dance created by the Royal Ballet of Cambodia in the mid-20th century under the patronage of Queen Sisowath Kossamak. The Apsara is played by a woman, sewn into tight-fitting traditional dress, whose graceful, sinuous gestures are codified to narrate classical myths or religious stories.
History
In 1940s, Queen Sisowath Kossomak Nearirath Serey Vatthana, the wife of King Norodom Suramarit, was sent an invitation to Sothearath primary school, seeing the school mistress prepared an inspirational angkor apsara dance which is performed by young school in the paper apsara costume includes Crown, Sampot and Flower, all referencing Apsara represented at Angkor Wat. The Queen got the idea to re-create the dance and led her first granddaughter, Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, a daughter of Norodom Sihanouk, to become the first professional apsara dancer of the modern era. The Princess started practicing the dance since she was 5 years old and danced apsara for first time during King Norodom Sihanouk's tenure.
In 1967, the fine–boned young princess, clad in silk and glittering jewels, performed beneath the stars on the open pavilion within the palace walls, accompanied by the royal dance troupe and the "pinpeat" orchestra. Selected by her grandmother, Queen Sisowath Kossomak, to become a dancer when she was only a baby. She toured the world as the principal dancer of the apsara role.
Headdress
The headdress of the lead apsara has five points or tips, with two rows of spherical decorations like the apsara pictured at Angkor Wat. Headdress worn by the subordinate dancers commonly have three points and only one row of sphere decoration. These crowns often include garlands of artificial hair with ornate adornments. The five-points crowns are frequently absent in modern dance routines.
Accessories
This round decorative collar (red colored) is highly visible; found just below the neck, the collar is embellished with detailed gold-colored copper ornaments and beaded designs. The elaborate decorations is usually found gracefully decorated on two separate rows. Additional copper ornaments are found hanging below these rows, in the shape of difficult-to-describe warped spear tips, the largest of which is centralized.
Dangling earrings, which are bound in bunches, traditionally stretch almost to the shoulder. These dangling earrings are mainly duplicated from the design of the 'krorsang' flower (a large spiny tree with sour fruit) and are preferred to the 'mete' (chili) flowers, which are held to be less beautiful.
There are a total of four types of wrist jewelry: kong rak, patrum, kong ngor, and sanlek. The first is a truly beautiful diamond-like studded bracelet a fine and elegantly wrist jewel decorated in a tree branch-like fashion, the second is more of a spring-like coiled gold colored thick copper while the third type of bracelet (two sets are worn) are small round beaded orb/sphere bunches delicately connected to one another, the last bracelet is an intricate and well decorated thickly rounded jewel. Additionally an Apsara dancer may be found wearing a garland of jasmine.
Two types of gold ankle jewelry are usually worn by the Apsara dancer, the first being kong tong chhuk the second kong ngor (or kong kravel).
The sangvar is a loosely decorated band of beads worn crosswise. The golden flower is considered a body-decorating element, either worn on the waist or carried during the performance. It too is gold in color, and made of thin flexible copper.
WHAT IS BEHIND BAYON TEMPLE IN CAMBODIA ?
Buddhist symbolism in the foundation of the temple by King Jayavarman VII
ANGKOR WAT SECRET BUILT
The Khmers used sandstones to construct the Angkor Wat. The blocks were collected from Mount Kulen. The Khmers used a combination of elephants, coir ropes, pulleys and bamboo to put the blocks in place.
UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT ANGKOR WAT
The sanctuary complex at Angkor Wat, only outside of Siem Reap, Cambodia, is world acclaimed for its multifaceted lotus-bloom towers, its cryptic grinning Buddha pictures and dazzling moving young ladies (Apsara), and its geometrically consummate channels and supplies.
WONDERFUL AND SECRET OF ANGKOR WAT
Part of an ancient Cambodian capital, Angkor Wat was the spiritual epicentre of the Khmer Empire.
WHAT IS HIDING OF ANGKOR WAT
The stones, as smooth as cleaned marble, were laid without mortar with tight joints that are once in a while elusive. The pieces were held together by mortise and tenon joints at times, while in others they utilized dovetails and gravity.
BACKGROUND OF ANGKOR WAT
Angkor Wat lies 5.5 kilometers (3.4 mi) north of the present day town of Siem Reap, and a short separation south and marginally east of the past capital, which was focused at Baphuon. It is in a zone of Cambodia where there is an essential gathering of old structures. It is the southernmost of Angkor's fundamental locales.
ANCIENT TEMPLE ANGKOR WAT
Angkor Wat lies 5.5 kilometers (3.4 mi) north of the advanced town of Siem Reap, and a short separation south and marginally east of the past capital, which was focused at Baphuon. It is in a zone of Cambodia where there is an imperative gathering of antiquated structures. It is the southernmost of Angkor's primary destinations.
TAPROM TEMPLE CAMBODIA
Ta Prom
is the modern name of the temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara (in Khmer: រាជវិហារ).
LEARN ABOUT ANGKOR WAT
Angkor Wat (Khmer: អង្គរវត្ត or "Capital Temple") is a sanctuary complex in Cambodia and the biggest religious landmark on the planet. It was initially established as a Hindu capital for the Khmer Empire, bit by bit changing into a Buddhist sanctuary toward the end of the twelfth century.
GET TO KNOW ABOUT ANGKOR WAT
Angkor is a standout amongst the most vital archeological locales in South-East Asia. Extending over approximately 400 km2, including forested range, Angkor Archeological Park contains the grand stays of the distinctive capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the ninth to the fifteenth century.
THE BIGGEST RELIGIOUS TEMPLE
Buddhists, Hindus, and countless voyagers from around the world run to Cambodia consistently to encounter the loftiness of Angkor temple. Its popular sanctuaries were worked over the range of five centuries by the leaders of the Khmer Empire, and bear today as one of Earth's most prominent archeological marvels. Go along with us as we shed light on a standout amongst the most perplexing, hypnotizing human advancements ever. We peel away the myth and legend to reveal the shrouded story behind the production of this old city (Siem Riep).
WORLD HERITAGE SITE
Cambodia's renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site, Angkor Wat, is amazing. You won't soon overlook meandering and investigating the sprawling, cut remains of an once-incredible progress.
VISIT ANGKOR WAT
Angkor Wat Temple Cambodian
A visit to Cambodia is a genuinely one of a kind and compensating background. There is a rich and glad society and amazing characteristic view and the soul and warmth of the general population make this an excellent destination to visit. The highlights of this interesting nation are gone by on this short trip of disclosure. In the capital, Phnom Penh, with its wide streets and unspoiled waterfront area at the juncture of the Mekong and Tonle Sap Rivers, we investigate the social and verifiable highlights of the city. We visit the Royal Palace, the clamoring Russian markets and the intense Genocide Museum. From Phnom Penh we advance up stream to Siem Reap, close to Angkor Wat, the profound heart of Cambodia. The symmetrically idealize Angkor Wat, is only one of an accumulation of elaborate individual sanctuary locales that are spread over a territory of 200 square kms, designating them as one of the wealthiest in the archeological world. Our visit of this entrancing site gives a fitting decision to an exceptional knowledge into this unique nation of South East Asia
THE HISTORY OF ANGKOR WAT TEMPLE
The developer of Angkor Wat was a lord named Suryavarman II. A usurper, he came to control in his young years by murdering his extraordinary uncle, Dharanindravarman I, while he was riding an elephant. An engraving says that Suryavarman murdered the man "as Garuda [a legendary bird] on a mountain edge would execute a serpent."
JAYAVARAMAN KING OF CAMBODIA
Jayavarman II was a 9th-century king of Cambodia, widely recognized as the founder of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of the Southeast Asian mainland for more than six hundred years. Historians formerly dated his reign as running from 802 AD to 835 AD. Before Jayavarman II came to power, there was much fighting among local overlords who ruled different parts of Cambodia. The country was not unified under one ruler.
ANGKOR WAT CAMBODIA FIRST EXPEDITION TO CAMBODIA 1880 81
Angkor Wat is a temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world. It was originally founded as a Hindu capital for the Khmer Empire, gradually transforming into a Buddhist temple toward the end of the 12th century. It was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yaśodharapura, the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Breaking from the Shaiva tradition of previous kings, Angkor Wat was instead dedicated to Vishnu.
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