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Angkor, Siem Reap · 13.4348°, 103.8890°
The monastery Jayavarman VII dedicated to his mother as Prajnaparamita, goddess of wisdom — its stele records 12,640 residents and 66,000 farmers supporting it. Left deliberately in the forest's embrace by French conservators, its strangler figs and silk-cotton roots pouring over the galleries made it the world's image of ruin and return; India's ASI has partnered in its conservation since 2004.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The stele's inscription mourns and hopes at once: 'By the virtue of this good work, may my mother, freed from the ocean of existence, attain Buddhahood' — filial love as architecture, now cradled by the very jungle it once ordered.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-26 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Khmer (Angkor)
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