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Saturday, September 12, 2015
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PREAH VIHEA TEMPE OF CAMBODIA



PREAH VIHEA TEMPLE


The Preah vihea temple affording a view for many kilometers across a plain,Preah vihea temple the most spectacular setting of all the temple built during the six-centuries-long khmer empire.as a key edifice of the empire's spiritual life,it was supported and modified by successive kinks and so bears element of several architectural style.
The Preah vihea temple give its name to cambodai's Preah vihea province ,in which it is now located,as well as Khao Phra  Wihan national park which border it in Thailand's Sisaket province and through which the temple is most easily accessible,and on july ,2008,Preah vihea temple was listed as UNESCO world Heritage Site.
Construction of the first temple on the site  began in the early  9th century ,both then and in Hindu god Shiva in his manifestation as the mountain gods Sikharesvara Bhadresvara.

The earliest surviving part of the temple,however,date from Koh Ker temple period in the early 10th century,when the empire's capital was at the city of the name.
The temple complex run 800 mater  along a north-south axis facing the plains  to the north,from which it is now cut off by the international border.
In consists essentially  of causeway and steps rising up the hill towards the sanctuary ,which sits on the  clifftop  at the southern end of the complex 120 mater  above the northern end of the complex 525 mater  above the cambodian plain and 625 mater above sea  level.
Although this structure is very different  from the temple mountains found at Ankor ,it serves the same purpose as a styles representation of Mount Meru,the home of the gods.




               WHY THE PREAH VHEA TEMPLE HAS THE STAIR IN THAILAND TODAY?

Mr, Sok Khin, he is a professor  teacher of history. currently he teached the history of Khmer, Thai, Loas, and Myanmar at the national institute E-nalko in Paris of France, he was said that, when the khmer king start construction Vihea temple in Preah Vihea provinceof the land of the kingdom of cambodia in the ansient era that is not there Siam or Thailand come from located in thailand today yet.
especially, in the session of old,the cambodia has the lands very larges and in the western extending from preah vihea province pass the thailand today and next to the myanmar. the northern, part is strecth, including today's city of Chiang Mai province of thailand.the siam or thailand until the end of the 13th century have just come down. so the khmer peoples was built the castle on the hill temple,this is the land of khmer.khmer want to do, having turned to the only place where they follow the location of the mountain.


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