Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Tep-Pranam (Means the worshipping god)

Date: the end of 9th century and 13the century
King: Yasovarman I and Jayavarman VII
Religion: Buddhism

This building was erected at the end of the 9th century and was completed in the end of 12th by the king Yasovaraman I and the king Jayavarman VII to dedicated to Buddhist. Now Tep-Pranam is a site of the Theravada Buddhist worship, the presence of the Buddhist monks and nuns in this temple give it a feeling and active place of worship and this site which was formerly the Buddhist monastery which associated with king Yasovarman I dating the end of 9th century. 

There is a causeway made of laterite leading to the monastery (measurement 8m wide by 75m long) and at the end of this causeway there is an terrace with double Sema (means Buddhist boundary markers at the corners and the axes, nearby there is another square platform 30m on each side with wooden building and the large seated Buddha on the lotus pedestal, probably this Buddha was made in later on 16th – 17th century?) when the country became Theravada Buddhism. And just behind this Buddha there is another standing Buddha with 4m high but the head was copy.








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