Wat Preah Ang Thom
Reclining Buddha eight meters long, carved into a natural sandstone boulder atop a sacred mountain.
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This guide to Wat Preah Ang Thom in Siem Reap centers on Cambodia's largest reclining Buddha, eight meters of pale sandstone carved straight into the boulder it still rests on, at the top of a sacred mountain. It follows the ritual of climbing barefoot past pilgrims' shoes and the hundreds of small riel notes wedged into the stairway's cracks, and pauses at a carved set of footprints behind the statue that some call Indra's and others attribute to hermits who lived on the mountain first. Listen for how two faiths share the same slab of rock.
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