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CATEGORIES:King's Silk Roads
SUMMARY:Eclecticism and tolerance in the religions pantheo
 n of ancient Angkor - Dr Peter Sharrock
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DESCRIPTION:Ancient Khmer religion was astonishingly open and 
 tolerant of a wide pantheon of deities. The king w
 ho sent abroad for the texts of Buddhist Tantra bu
 ilt multiple monasteries around his lineage temple
  to Siva. When the largely Buddhist Mahidhara dyna
 sty came to power\, the king who was crowned by br
 ahmins in Angkor\, constructed a vast Esoteric Bud
 dhist temple at home and send his Saiva guru to ma
 ke donations to the Saiva shrines across the kingd
 om. In his family’s next generation\, one king bui
 lt the largest Vaisnava temple on earth and his yo
 unger brother\, on succeeding him\, built eight Es
 oteric Buddhist sanctuaries east of Angkor and add
 ressed his major dedication inscription to the Adi
 -Buddha Vajrasattva. When Buddhism was finally mad
 e the religion of state it embraced the Mahayana p
 ureland of Sukhavati and the cult of Hevajra\, whi
 le conserving sanctuaries to Siva and Visnu in the
  state temple.
LOCATION:Audit Room\, King’s College (and online) 
CONTACT:Said Reza Huseini
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