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The Khmer Monks Who Saved Angkor
By the late 14th century, the grand Hindu temples of Angkor stood silent as the court fled south to Longvek. Yet the city was not abandoned; it was transformed from within by a quiet revolution in religious practice. This episode explores how Prince Mongkut, later King Rama IV, and his reformist monastic order, the dhammayut, stepped into the crumbling ruins of Kambuja to preserve its spiritual heritage. We trace the shift from the royal devaraja cult to the egalitarian Theravada Buddhism that allowed ordinary monks to maintain the sites when kings could no longer afford the stone. Through…
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