【 Romance 】 Cambodia 5: Khmer smile: Payan Temple (Bayon)

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Every day, we will encounter many faces, smiles, depressed, sad, happy, and there are many more, and we know of expressionless.

However, I must tell you, the Siem Reap, Cambodia, Angkor Wat temple of Payan in, you can breath see 216 face, each face is so vivid, so serene and peaceful, each face is your memories that will never forget. This is my very favorite Khmer smile: 54 seats four stupa, 216 smiling.

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Payan Temple in King City, King City within in Angkor Temple 1500 metres to the North.

According to the information, through Empire city, also known as Angkor, the capital of the Angkor Empire, Southeast Asian history's most magnificent capital city, its population reaches millions when.

Repeatedly destroyed by war, and after several reconstructions, the ultimate in 1426, is discarded. Through Empire city is square, city walls perimeter 14 km, width up to 100 meters of the moat around. The whole city 5 gates, South Gate and gate is people daily pass gate, East to use, Simon-Qing's funeral is the offender. There is also a victory on the north side of the East, through the Royal Palace, the King's private.

Since it is a city, nature has a moat, moat bridge on both sides of stone as beings and Asura Heli mixing milk sea Gets the elixir of the story.

Each side has 27 statue, 2.2 meters high, kneeling sitting posture, working together to unseat reported holding Monty Python. Observation of the statue faces tell his identity: eyes, slender, expression implied is beings, anger glaring, face ferocious is ASURA.

We like people naturally into the city from the South Gate.

South Gate gate up to 23 m and other gates, above all for the great Buddha, wearing a serene smile.

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Payan Temple residence in the capital city centre-symbolizes the center of the universe, to the four-door xumeshan four roads are set off from here.

Come before the monastery Payan I witnessed amazing Khmer smile, to know, in fact, only after here not only Khmer smile, there are plenty of corridors carved murals, except that it is not like the gallery top Angkor Temple saved so good, so a lot of time in days of embossed erosion, have failed to recognize it.

Speaks, comparing Angkor Temple of relief mural, I prefer this relief mural.

In addition to the religious stories, myths and legends, war scenes, and productive labour, the trade fair life scenes. I see with long beard of the Chinese army, solemn look, in the jungle road; sea fish spread large mouth, and swallowed half fell from warships into the sea by the soldier; winning back toward the King received a warm welcome, but he carelessly, because you never know what presented to bless his rescuers of the Buddha; health and slim women in pitcher, said I could not understand the Khmer language, I can carry in their hands, realize them between the happy life hard pleasure ... I like the content of these secular than superior Buddha, this picture I am getting close.

Of course, I come to see Payan Temple Buddha.

Payan monastery is like a block appearing mountain, 49, stupa stands as a succession of hills, a city that is the top, the remaining 48 block, like all such zhongxingpengyue crowd around it. 49 seat pagoda roof are inscribed with the great Buddha, a Buddhist image as typical Khmer people face to face with serene smile, this is the world-famous Angkor Wat "Khmer smile." Here a face are very great, and some have even reached 4 metres high. Walk through the many stupas, regardless of body anywhere, you'll find there laughing eyes watching your every move. You can imagine, so many huge smiles around around you, how would you feel? I was shocked but shocked or, really cannot say it's love, only in the mind continuously saying that: too much magic too amazing.

Yes, Angkor VAT is wonders, especially Payan Temple.

It was verified that the face is the then King Jeroboam PostScript friction seven up, face, in order to worship the Buddha, he let the craftsman bungalow in accordance with him sided stupa architecture, but this conclusion has not been confirmed.

In fact, these smiling faces at first glance looks like, look, there are nuances. Just look, that smile, calm eyes, serene face slightly bend the appearance, how many people are fictitious and guess space, let everyone there a hundred years.

Khmer smile is really famous, so here's the visitors very much, just in front of a Buddha, someone will stop coming here, I am talking to quietly looked at him.

Then I gave up photography, sat alone in a stupa of opposite studied for a long time, long time.

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Back finishing photos, photos of found Payan temple than elsewhere is little small deep asked me: you like Payan Temple, why not take a few more?

I do, and he said? I would like to tell him that I have the image completely into my memories of the casing, as long as memory is, I of these beautiful 216 face memory will not forget; as long as the memory of the casing is opened, the memories you will take me "up" and come back to that day, together with the day's Sun, nothing, as if we had just met.

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(In general the King met outside the elephants)

(Payan Temple vision)

(Khmer smile)

(Khmer smile)