Kambodscha: CITY OF THE GODS - Teil 6 von 6

UNLIKE other countries, Cambodia does not minimize Indian influence on the local culture. On the contrary, the people of the country generously acknowledge it.

Angkor Wat, the greatest of Khmer temples, is a text in itself. The hundreds of reliefs sculpted on its stones narrate the events from the Hindu Epics and the Puranas, and symbolically communicate the fundamental religious, philosophical, ethical and political principles of the Khmers at the time of Suryavarman. Varman was a title given to Kings and Pandita was title given to Brahmins.