Bayon: the temple of 216 faces

The Bayon, a Buddhist temple, was built in the late 12th or early 13th Century by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII at his capital Angkor Thom, Cambodia. It is the last state temple built at Angkor. There is debate whether the faces which adorn the towers of the temple are of King Jayavarman VII or of the bodhisattva of compassion called Avalokitesvara.

 

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