Baphuon Temple
Five-tier sandstone temple-mountain later reshaped into a giant reclining Buddha from its own dismantled stones.
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This guide to Baphuon Temple in Siem Reap opens in 1996, with a French architect standing in a field of numbered sandstone blocks and a missing list that once said where each belonged. It goes back to King Udayadityavarman the Second, who built the temple-mountain for Shiva around 1060, and to the Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan, who saw it in 1296. Best heard while you walk the raised causeway toward the temple.
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