Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Angkor' has mentioned 'Religion' 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 |
| [20] This massive program of construction coincided with a transition in the state religion from Hinduism to Mahayana Buddhism, since Jayavarman himself had adopted the latter as his personal faith. | WIKI |
| Following his death, the revival of Hinduism as the state religion included a large-scale campaign of desecrating Buddhist images, and continued until Theravada Buddhism became established as the land's dominant religion from the 14th century. | WIKI |
| Some of the topics he addressed in the account were those of religion, justice, kingship, agriculture, slavery, birds, vegetables, bathing, clothing, tools, draft animals, and commerce. | WIKI |
| Erosion of the state religion[edit] | WIKI |
| [44] As a result, it is easier to write the history of Angkorian state religion than it is to write that of just about any other aspect of Angkorian society. | WIKI |
| Several religious movements contributed to the historical development of religion at Angkor: | WIKI |
| Pre-Angkorian religion[edit] | WIKI |
| The religion of pre-Angkorian Cambodia, known to the Chinese as Funan (1st century AD to ca. | 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 |
| [53] Through the worship of the lingam, the king was identified with Shiva, and Shaivism became the state religion. | 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 |
| Jayavarman also made Buddhism the state religion of his kingdom when he constructed the Buddhist temple known as the Bayon at the heart of his new capital city of Angkor Thom. | WIKI |
| The dominant religion was that of Theravada Buddhism. | WIKI |
| Gradually, it became the dominant religion of Cambodia, displacing both Mahayana Buddhism and Shaivism. | WIKI |