802 Establishments - Khmer Empire, Haeinsa (Paperback)

Chapters: Khmer Empire, Haeinsa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Khmer Empire was one of the most powerful kingdoms in Southeast Asia, based in what is now Cambodia and flourishing from the 9th to the 13th century. The empire, which grew out of former kingdom of Chenla, at times ruled over and/or vassalized parts of modern-day Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Malaysia. Its greatest legacy is Angkor, the site of the capital city during the empire's zenith. Angkor bears testimony to the Khmer empire's immense power and wealth, as well as the variety of belief systems that it patronised over time. The empire's official religions included Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism, until Theravada Buddhism prevailed, even among the lower classes, after its introduction from Sri Lanka in the 13th century. Modern researches by satellites have revealed Angkor to be the largest pre-industrial urban center in the world. The history of Angkor as the central area of settlement of the historical kingdom of Kambujadesa is also the history of the Khmer from the 9th to the 13th centuries. From Kambuja itself - and so also from the Angkor region - no written records have survived other than stone inscriptions. Therefore the current knowledge of the historical Khmer civilization is derived primarily from: The beginning of the era of the Khmer kingdom is conventionally dated to 802 AD. In this year, king Jayavarman II had himself declared chakravartin ("king of the world," or "king of kings") on Phnom Kulen. The first data on Jayavarman II came from K.235 stone inscription on a stele in Sdok Kok Thom temple, Isan region. Dating 1053 AD. it recounts two and a half centuries of service that members of the temple's founding family provided to the Khmer court, mainly a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=222431