Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Angkor' has mentioned 'Lingam' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Contents 1 Historical overview 1.1 Seat of the Khmer Empire 1.2 Construction of Angkor Wat 1.3 Jayavarman VII 1.4 Zhou Daguan 1.5 End of the Angkorian period 1.5.1 War with the Ayutthaya Kingdom 1.5.2 Erosion of the state religion 1.5.3 Neglect of public works 1.5.4 Natural disaster 1.6 Restoration, preservation, and threats 1.6.1 Water-table dropping 1.6.2 Looting 1.6.3 Unsustainable tourism 1.6.4 COVID-19 2 Religious history 2.1 Pre-Angkorian religion 2.2 Shiva and the lingam 2.3 Vaishnavism 2.4 Mahayana Buddhism 2.5 Hindu restoration 2.6 Religious pluralism 2.7 Theravada Buddhism 3 Archaeological sites 4 Terms and phrases 5 See also 6 Footnotes 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links | WIKI |
| The mountain, in turn, was represented by an elevated temple, in which the "god-king" was represented by a lingam. | WIKI |
| Indigenous religious cults mixed with Shaivism, including those centered on worship of the ancestors and of the lingam; A royal cult of personality, identifying the king with the deity, characteristic not only of Angkor, but of other Hindu civilizations in southeast Asia, such as Champa and Java; Hinduism, especially Shaivism, the form of Hinduism focused on the worship of Shiva and the lingam as the symbol of Shiva, but also Vaishnavism, the form of Hinduism focussed on the worship of Vishnu; Buddhism, in both its Mahayana and Theravada varieties. | WIKI |
| [47] Characteristic of the religion of Chenla also was the cult of the lingam, or stone phallus that patronized and guaranteed fertility to the community in which it was located. | WIKI |
| Shiva and the lingam[edit] | WIKI |
| Typically, a lingam served as the central religious image of the Angkorian temple-mountain. | WIKI |
| The temple-mountain was the center of the city, and the lingam in the main sanctuary was the focus of the temple. | WIKI |
| [52] The name of the central lingam was the name of the king himself, combined with the suffix -esvara, which designated Shiva. | WIKI |
| [53] Through the worship of the lingam, the king was identified with Shiva, and Shaivism became the state religion. | WIKI |
| [54] Thus, an inscription dated 881xc2xa0AD indicates that king Indravarman I erected a lingam named Indresvara. | WIKI |
| [55] Similarly, Rajendravarman, whose reign began in 944xc2xa0AD, constructed the temple of Pre Rup, the central tower of which housed the royal lingam called Rajendrabhadresvara. | WIKI |
| "[57] Religious syncretism, however, remained thoroughgoing in Khmer society: the state religion of Shaivism was not necessarily abrogated by Suryavarman's turn to Vishnu, and the temple may well have housed a royal lingam. | WIKI |