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Angkor Wat continued on the causeway	our breakfast cafe
the East Gate to Angkor Wat
	cicada skins
	the back door to Angkor Wat!
	the Bas Reliefs depicting the 'churning of milk' etc.
Angkor Thom King Jayavarman VII (c. 1130-1219) built the Angkor Thom complex, which contains the Bayon, a Buddhist temple embellished with huge stone heads of the king. the South Gate
the four faces depict the four ststes of mind of King Jayavarman VII ... kindness, compassion, sympathy and equanimity
it was believed that people walking through the gate were purified and thus receiving the four states of mind.	The Bayon Built to the north of Angkor Wat, and following its plan as Buddhist cosmology had followed Hindu belief, its square moated enclosure, some 4 km (2 € miles) on a side with moats 90 m (98 yd) wide, was centred on a vast stepped temple complex, the Bayon, with five towers. The enormous face effigies on the Bayon represent both the omnipresent Buddha and the king himself.
	Elephant Terrace