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Cambodia Banteay Meanchey Banteay Chhmar Temple
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Banteay Chhmar is a remote temple complex located 108 km northwest of Angkor, and about 25 km southeast of the present border with Thailand. The name, which means 'Citadel of the Cats', is a modern designation that may be a corruption of Banteay Chhmar , meaning Small Citadel . The remoteness of the site has proved doubly problematic: first, the temple was likely abandoned soon after the death of its founder and benefactor, the prolific builder Jayavarman VII (r. 1181-1218). Second, the lack of any substantial government authority in the area (especially in the last century or so) proved irresistible to thieves and treasure hunters, who ransacked most of the temple's important treasures and damaged large swaths of its structure (in some instances, looters absconded with whole sections of walls covered in base-reliefs). Thieves also made off with (and in some cases accidentally destroyed) several stale inscriptions before they could be photographed or otherwise recorded. • Despite this, several minor inscriptions provide sufficient evidence of the temple's founding by Jayavarman VII, the monarch responsible for considerable construction in Angkor's late golden age. Why he close this barren and desolate site, far to the west of the Royal Road linking Angkor to Phimai (in modern Thailand) is a matter of consider scholarly debate. Apart from the sheer size of the temple, the waterworks required to support the surrounding town required a hydraulic network extending tens of kilometers north to the Dangrek Mountains. One theory is that this colossal undertaking served as the forward command center for Jayavaraman's war against the Chams. Although it would have been geographically more logical to fight the Chams from a position further to the east, Jayavarman's status as the first Buddhist monarch in Khmer history may have made this difficult. Operating in what is today northwest Cambodia, a region closer to Jayavarman's birthplace and the site of the traditionally Buddhist corridor in northwest Cambodia (Sharrock, p. 23), Jayavaraman may have felt more comfortable consolidating military power here than in Angkor with its numerous Brahmin aristocratic families. • Another theory, perhaps not mutually exclusive, is that Banteay Chhmar operated as the head 'hospital' of the network of medical stations established by Jayavarman VII throughout the Khorat plateau (today's Isaan region of Thailand). It is well established that Jayavarman endowed hundreds of such 'hospitals' throughout the empire, particularly in the northwest, and that these missions included a strong Buddhist religious component that centered on the worship of Bhaisajyaguru, the Buddha of medicine. Sharrock also notes that Banteay Chhmar's satellite temples are similar in layout—albeit larger—to the hospitals found to the north. The locations of the satellite temples at Banteay Chhmar—roughly one at each cardinal direction—is also reminiscent of the placement of the four hospital chapels erected by Jayavaraman around Angkor. • If you wish to discover more temples in Cambodia let you pay a visit to our YouTube Channel @ Tim Adventure Media for more videos updates. • #TAM, #Angkor Wat, #Documentary, #Cambodia. • ................................................................................................... • Website: iminesite.us • YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClNk... • Facebook Page: / tim-active-1. . • https://twitter.com/home • / ancienttemple • Video: • Cambodia - Banteay Meanchey - Banteay... • Cambodge - Banteay Meanchey - Temple de Banteay Chhmar. • Camboya - Banteay Meanchey - Templo Banteay Chhmar. • Kambodscha - Banteay Meanchey - Banteay Chhmar Tempel. • Камбоджа - Бантей Меанчи - Храм Бантей Чхмар. • कंबोडिया - बैंतेय मीन्चे - बैंतेय छमार मंदिर। • 柬埔寨-Banteay Meanchey-Banteay Chhmar寺 • カンボジア-バンテアイミーンチェイ-バンテアイクフマル寺院 • 캄보디아-반 테이 사격-반 테이 초 마르 사원. • Καμπότζη - Banteay Meanchey - Banteay Chhmar Temple.
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