Wat Preah Prom Rath
Century-old pagoda with a reclining Buddha said to be carved from a shipwrecked monk's boat.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Wat Preah Prom Rath in Siem Reap traces the legend behind its reclining Buddha, credited to a monk nicknamed for rice that stayed warm, whose boat was torn apart by sharks on a grain run to Long Vek. You'll hear how the surviving timber became the statue inside the Preah Vihear hall, and why historians quietly doubt a story some trace instead to King Ang Chan. Notice the gold leaf, reapplied by hand, and the boat replica in the courtyard.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Wat Preah Ang Thom
Reclining Buddha eight meters long, carved into a natural sandstone boulder atop a sacred mountain.
Tep Pranam Temple
Weathered laterite terrace guarded by stone lions, sheltering a giant seated Buddha pieced together from ancient sandstone blocks.
Palilay Temple
Small forest sanctuary with a chimney-shaped tower and pediments carving scenes from the Buddha's life.
Baphuon Temple
Five-tier sandstone temple-mountain later reshaped into a giant reclining Buddha from its own dismantled stones.
Wat Bo
Eighteenth-century Buddhist temple famed for rare nineteenth-century murals of the Reamker epic.
Wat Damnak
Former royal residence turned Buddhist monastery, home to Cambodia's largest public academic library outside the capital.