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Bakken Hill is a hill 1.5 kilometers northwest of Angkor Wat, about 70 meters high, and is the only commanding point in the vicinity. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

To the west of the mountain is the open Westbaray, and in the jungle to the southeast is Angkor Wat, which offers a commanding view of Angkor Wat from the top of Bakken Mountain. There is a rectangular ditch 650 meters long and 436 meters wide outside the Bakken Temple, which may have been used for the waterproofing of the old capital building of Loros.

Surrounded by a moat, symbolizing the Aral Sea that surrounds Mount Meru, the center of the world in Hindu mythology, Bakken Temple is built on a flat hilltop. The temple hill is a steep five-level pedestal, square, 13 meters high, the bottom layer is 76 meters long, and the top layer is 47 meters long; The steep temple mountain symbolizes Mount Meru.

The five pagodas at the top of the temple hill symbolize the five peaks of Mount Meru. In the center of the four sides of the pedestal, there are five layers of steep stone steps respectively, each layer is ten steps, straight to the top platform of the temple, each layer of stone steps is left and right, guarding a pair of sitting lions, some stone lions have been damaged, and the appearance of the lion can not be seen.

The 109 pagodas of Bakken Monastery are arranged symmetrically according to strict geometric patterns: five pagodas on the top floor, one in the middle and one at each of the four corners, such as five-point plum blossoms; The four corners of each layer of the square pedestal of the temple hill are placed with corner towers, a total of 20 corner towers; Each of the four five-story stairs has a pair of pagodas standing left and right, and there are 40 staircase pagodas in total.

There are also 44 pagodas around the temple mountain. At the beginning of the 14th century, when Wang Dayuan, a navigator of the Yuan Dynasty, visited Zhenla± ∽ Chang ± ∽ Feng ± ∽ Wen ± ∽ Xue, ww⊕ ◆ ⊕ T called Bakken Temple "Baita Island", and more than 100 towers at that time were still golden pagodas. Today, many pagodas are incomplete.

Wat Tabulong is one of the largest buildings in the Angkor Wat complex. It includes 260 idols, 39 minarets, and 566 palaces. Archaeologists decoded a Sanskrit stele in the temple and learned that Taburon covered 3,140 villages and required 79,365 manpower to keep the temple running, including 18 senior priests, 2,740 officials, 2,202 assistants and 615 dancers.

It contains a set of gold plates weighing more than 500 kilograms, 35 diamonds, 40,620 pearls, and 4,540 precious stones...... As one of Angkor's most artistic relics, the appeal of Wat Tabulong is that it is unlike any other temple. He was almost swallowed by the jungle.

It is said that the small door under the big tree in the middle is the Tomb Raider, in which Julie chases a little girl and enters the entrance of the tomb drop, the sun still shines faintly down the exquisite drop relief, the green drop Tabulon Temple is a giant tree, deep into the underground drop root system is enough to crush the hard drop stone, what a perfect drop fusion, the exit is the west hall.

After being discovered by the French in the 19th century. The hundred-year-old tree has long been tightly wrapped around the temple, so it has been abandoned for restoration and has retained its original appearance. The roots of the tree stretched uncontrollably, around the eaves, into the cracks in the stone, and wrapped the old temple so tightly that it was almost believed that the temple had popped out of the roots, and then they were entangled. It's like that.

The trees here are divided into two types, the larger is the kapok, which is thicker and has a light brown color. And there are many boiled roots. The smaller one is the strangled banyan, which has gray and thin roots, but is tangled and tangled.

Ta Prom Monastery, many of its palace walls and gates are entrenched by towering giant trees, and the rhizomes of the local people call the snake tree (kapok) are interwoven between beams and pillars, stone cracks, eaves, doors and windows.

Giant trees grow in intertwined intervals in the temple, and their seeds germinate in water, and birds peck at the fruits of the trees and distribute the seeds throughout the temple. The roots of the tree spread deep into the stone cracks of the building in all directions, and the giant roots grasped the broken temple. This is also a time of decline and fall of the Angkor civilization.

It is said that the French decided to abandon the renovation because the roots were so intertwined that they only slightly repaired it to keep it in its original appearance. The result was the temple that today is entrenched by huge tree roots.

At the entrance, there is a tall four-faced Buddha standing in front of you, and when you enter the city gate, you can't actually see the monuments. It feels like walking into a dense forest, and on the side of the road to Taprohm Temple, there is a strange tree with a body of 20 to 30 meters high and a large charred piece on the trunk. It is a plant that the locals call it an oil tree.

The reason for burning it is to make it drip oil to use as fuel for lighting, and as long as it is not excessive, it can be endless, like a natural gas station.

In addition to the natural wonders, the temple is also home to a variety of reliefs, and the temple is dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, who is said to have been sculpted by King Gayahuo Roman VII in the face of his mother. In addition to the special gabled wall of the monks, there are many beautiful carvings, including the deeds of the Buddha, and the image of the earth goddess Pu Daivi holding a hair petal.

There is also a very special structure called the Knocking Heart Pagoda, which was originally set up as a special advice room for the king. The special vertebral architectural design makes the echo on both sides large and the middle echo small. If you stand in the tower with your back against the wall and look up at the sky, and then beat your chest, the whole tower will echo loudly.

Tabulon Temple, a temple built by Jayavarman VII for his mother, is a Buddhist temple. I don't know if this is related to the emperor's mother's belief in Buddhism, and the items with Buddhist imprints, from the temple to the rice bowl, are all harmonious and transparent.

Considering that King Aldehyabrama VII was supposed to be a thoughtful, sensitive, and gentle man, Tabulon Monastery under his auspices reflected the spirit of Buddhism, made full use of the Khmer architectural language, and was built in a feminine, ornate and feminine manner.

The architecture of Tabulon Monastery is the same as that of Bayon, except that the smiling face is missing. The Angkor Temple is gorgeous, the Bayon Temple is gloomy, they all belong to the gods, and there is no earthly fireworks. Lively because of the participation of life. The entire temple is surrounded by huge trees, and the dense roots of the trees are like giant pythons, tightly entangled with everything they can grasp, and entangled with the ancient temple for thousands of years until they become one.

The giant trees at the entrance shade the sky and the sun, and the roots of those trees are exaggerated. What should have been a magnificent temple is now under the feet of a large tree. Perhaps only such a huge force of nature can compete with the Buddha. These roots have spent hundreds of years entwined; Through the stone towers and cloisters that were considered impregnable, it slowly wrapped.

The temple is buried. The Buddha also has the helplessness of the Buddha, Yunluo has to sigh the tenacity of vitality, from the germination to squeeze the stone crack until the final stretch of the body, the endless life and the Buddha are as worthy of awe. Heaven and earth give birth to gods, and also multiply spirits. They have intertwined here for centuries to produce such exquisite spectacles that they enchant Angkor with enigmatic makeup.

The tropical climate makes it particularly powerful, and the roots of the tree grip the stone wall like an open hand, and then dig deep into the earth. The branches reach high into the sky, and some insert lower guardrails, causing it to shatter and fall.

The hollow trees had no leaves, only white branches, and the presence of the stone made it difficult for it to breathe, as if it were dead, but it would come back to life when the rainy season came. Hundreds of years later, the jungle gradually covered the area, and more stones were cut by the trees, and it became even more dilapidated during the war.

That being the case, people have not forgotten it. In the past, many people who were so poor that they had nothing did not hesitate to offend the gods and cut off the Buddha's head in exchange for the necessities of life. Now, it is being climbed and climbed by tourists, and made into pictures to attract more people.

In order to protect the exquisite statues from further destruction, national cultural heritage conservation organizations came and they removed the trees that grew too tall. By the way, the precious trees in the jungle were also cut down and made into furniture and floors for the rich to put in the gardens of the rich. In the hotel where I stayed, the ceiling and the floor were all made of ant wood, and even the lamp holder was made of wood.

If the temple is quiet, if you sit in the shade after a cool rain, you may be able to hear the conversation between the tree and the stone. It's a pity that the clamor of tourists all over the land broke all this.

Like any scenic spot in China, everyone is moving faster than anyone else, vying to take pictures with those entangled trees, but in fact, they are just the feet of the trees, looking up, the ancient trees are towering to the sky. What was once a joyful and glorious stage is in ruins. The temple is dilapidated, and there are stones all over the place.

It seems that the scenery of trees and stones for hundreds of years is no match for human greed. I don't know how many more movies can be made here, how many people's hearts can be kept, how many knees can be broken, or how many lucky people are left, and I can listen to a sad song.

The Temple was renovated from 1927 to 1932. It was built in the 12th century by King Koyavarman VII as a memorial to his father. It is said that at that time, Angkor Thom was under construction, and it became the king's temporary residence, that is, the place where he held his pilgrimage and study. There is an inscription in the monastery written by the son of Koyavarman VII.

The temple is large, with a rectangular wall that is 800 meters long and 700 meters wide. There are four paths leading to the temple, at the entrance of the temple stand several gods and asuras with long snakes in their hands stirring the milk sea, and on the east and west sides, there is a long wall of sandstone lotus flowers, and the lotus flowers used to have Buddha statues, but when Shiva presided over them, they were destroyed.

At the eastern entrance of the Temple of the Sacred Sword, there is a two-storey building, which is said to have been used to store the Sacred Sword, and its round pillars resemble the Mediterranean architectural style. Starting from the central tower, four narrow corridors extend in all directions with vaults. On the west and back sides of the temple are shrines dedicated to Vishnu and Shiva, respectively.

The International Foundation for Monuments, which repaired the temple of the Holy Pagoda, did not clean up the temple to the south, and the ruins on the south side remained buried deep in the forest. The middle part of the temple is high and represents Mount Meru, the center of the universe. According to research, the royal family of the Angkor Dynasty abandoned Angkor Thom in the 15th century, but the incense of the Holy Sword Temple has always been very strong. (To be continued......)

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