Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Angkor' has mentioned 'Vishnu' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Breaking with the tradition of the Khmer kings, and influenced perhaps by the concurrent rise of Vaisnavism in India, he dedicated the temple to Vishnu rather than to Siva. | 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 |
| [49] Harihara is the name of a deity that combines the essence of Vishnu (Hari) with that of Shiva (Hara) and that was much favored by the Khmer kings. | WIKI |
| An 11th- or 12th-century Cambodian bronze statue of Vishnu | WIKI |
| In the early days of Angkor, the worship of Vishnu was secondary to that of Shiva. | WIKI |
| The central religious image of Angkor Wat was an image of Vishnu, and an inscription identifies Suryavarman as "Paramavishnuloka," or "he who enters the heavenly world of Vishnu. | 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 |
| According to Angkor scholar Georges Coedxc3xa8s, "Angkor Wat is, if you like, a vaishnavite sanctuary, but the Vishnu venerated there was not the ancient Hindu deity nor even one of the deity's traditional incarnations, but the king Suryavarman II posthumously identified with Vishnu, consubstantial with him, residing in a mausoleum decorated with the graceful figures of apsaras just like Vishnu in his celestial palace. | WIKI |
| "[58] Suryavarman proclaimed his identity with Vishnu, just as his predecessors had claimed consubstantiation with Shiva. | WIKI |