Exploring Angkor Thom - Prasat Chrung Temples - Corner Temples Of The City - Cambodia 2024
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- The Khmer term "Chrung" means corner or angle. That's the name of the location, the four corners of the city walls of Angkor Thom. Thus, Prasat Chrung is not one temple, but four, and they are more than three kilometers from each other.
The shared name makes sense as the temples are similar in design.
All of them are simple Prasat towers on a cruciform ground plan and open to the east, the two Prasat Chrungs on the eastern city wall have additional entrances to the west. The walls are decorated in the Bayon style of Angkor Thom, for example with female divine beings called Devatas in niches. Pediments show standing Avalokiteshvaras, but many of them defaced or scratched out during the reign of the Jayavarman VIII.
The southeastern Prasat Chrung is the best preserved of the four strcuctures. Besides, it was the only one with the stele containing the complete original inscription in Sanskrit on all four sides of the slab, today it is housed in the Conservation office.
The Prasat Chrung inscription not only mentions the foundation of Angkor Thom, but the previous history of Angkor as well. It is the record from which most books about Khmer history took the information that Angkor Wat builder Suryavarman II came to power by personally killing his great-uncle Dharanindravarman in combat, though this is not mentioned on the more contemporary Khmer inscriptions at Wat Po (Wat Phu) and Bau That in southern Laos.
The Prasat Chrung temples were dedicated to the Bodhisattva Lokeshvara (Avalokiteshvara), the same Mahayana saviour to whom the central Bayon temple of Angkor Thom was dedicated. So they belong to an integral masterplan of Angkor Thom, which was not only a city, but a gigantic Mahayana Buddhist temple compound.
A visit of a Prasat Chrung temple requires a 1.5 km walk or bicycle ride on the city walls, 3 km up and down, this is why Prasat Chrung is untouristed and pretty charming. The corner locations additionally offer great views to the city moat of Angkor Thom.
If you have enough time, it's definitely worth a visit. Exploring the whole city rampart of Angkor Thom completely, requires a 12 kilometer journey.
Exploring these temples really shows you how large Angkor Thom really is. It’s also a lot of fun being out away from the crowds and enjoying this part of the world.
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This was fun exploring the area to see these unknown temples. I made another video of all 5 of the gates into the city. Here is the video if you want to see it.
Exploring Angkor Thom - All City Gates and Causeways Siem Reap Cambodia
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Send my utmost respect for all you do to promote the true origin of Khmer Empire. There’s 4,000 Khmer Temples located within Cambodia ,as in Siem Riep, Preah Vihear, Battambang , Kampung Tum , Provinces . And 2,000 more ancient Khmers ruins located in Thailand as well .
Thanks for watching. I’ve been to hundreds of them and plan to visit many more. I enjoy seeing them. Glad you enjoyed the video.
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Thanks for watching. This was a lot of fun to see these temples. The size of Angkor Thom is beyond belief. A true testament to the skill and dedication of the builders.
It seems that gate is where they entered from when they got sacked
I’m not sure how they entered into the city. I’ve been trying to find more information about it. The Cham and Vietnamese war elephants had multiple-bow siege crossbows that the Chinese provided them the technology for. They used it in the campaigns in 1171 and 1177. I’m not sure about how Ayutthaya got into the city. They might have sacked the city 3 different times. I’ve also read that they might have just brought their army to the gates and the Khmer king agreed to pay tribute to them. Lots of history was lost over the years. If you know a good source that is in English in the topic please let me know. I would really love to read it.
Thank you for showing us the city wall. One of the reasons we lost is because of the traitor. Greed. Hehe, plus internal fighting. Plus religious issues. All bout the power.
I wanted to make this video to try to show everyone the sheer scale of Angkor Thom. People have no idea that it’s 16km to walk around it. It’s an absolute massive place and I was really lucky to be able to explore just a little bit of it.
History is full of stories of traitors. In Ayutthaya the kings son betrayed his father to the Burmese in order to be king during the white elephant war. The Chinese have the same story with guards accepting bribes from the Mongolians.
@@endlessjourneytravels yep. Yeah, people don't even know how massive it is.
@@SirNova2o9 I think that is how they can assume a few slaves built places like Angkor Wat or some of the other temples. The scale shows that it was a complete state sponsored construction project. Hundreds of thousands of workers would’ve been involved for decades.
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Understood after the Genocides , Ancient Cambodia has been sponsors by few many countries to help shape up the reconstruction of Angkor Wat temples wich has been damaged during the Pol Pot era.
Temples its build by own Khmers native that owes money and can’t repaid back as debtors or has been some type of criminals offenses to the public so the Khmer Kings during Angkorian Empire. Instead of sentencing them in jail he don’t believe in jail times but ,he have the Khmer native debtors and others public offenses to help build the Ancient Angkorian Temples still Khmer Kings has provide shelter and foods to the debtors they were all in once united at constructing the Khmer Empire.
Le gouvernement devrai réparer toute les temples pour attirer les touristes
Thanks for watching.