Wat Damnak

This guide to Wat Damnak in Siem Reap follows one compound through three lives: a royal residence built for King Sisowath in nineteen oh four that he barely used, the Buddhist monastery monks raised the moment his household left, and the revolutionary committee the Khmer Rouge installed here in nineteen seventy-five, when monks were stripped of their robes and religion was banned outright. It also reads the pink-walled hall's carved pediment, its apsara dancers and two-headed nagas cut above plain columns, as a survivor of all three eras.