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SUMMARY:Eclecticism and tolerance in the religions pantheon of ancient Ang
 kor - Dr Peter Sharrock
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CONTACT:Said Reza Huseini
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Khmer religion was astonishingly open and tolerant of 
 a wide pantheon of deities. The king who sent abroad for the texts of Budd
 hist Tantra built multiple monasteries around his lineage temple to Siva. 
 When the largely Buddhist Mahidhara dynasty came to power\, the king who w
 as crowned by brahmins in Angkor\, constructed a vast Esoteric Buddhist te
 mple at home and send his Saiva guru to make donations to the Saiva shrine
 s across the kingdom. In his family’s next generation\, one king built t
 he largest Vaisnava temple on earth and his younger brother\, on succeedin
 g him\, built eight Esoteric Buddhist sanctuaries east of Angkor and addre
 ssed his major dedication inscription to the Adi-Buddha Vajrasattva. When 
 Buddhism was finally made the religion of state it embraced the Mahayana p
 ureland of Sukhavati and the cult of Hevajra\, while conserving sanctuarie
 s to Siva and Visnu in the state temple.
LOCATION:Audit Room\, King’s College (and online) 
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