Angkor Wat, deep in Combodia, is the funeral monument of king Suryawarman II,
built in the middleof the 12th century CE. it is one of the largest religious
buildings in the world. At Angkor, enormous block of buff, ochre and pink
sandstone were used to construct a huge religious complex, consosting of
temples, terraces, towers and lakes. The structures were built without the use
of the mortar, and are covered with carvings which appear to grow from the very
stone themeselves. The carving devict gods, goddesss, scenes from history and
stores from the epic Sanskrit poem, the Ramayana. The Shwe Dagon Pagoda near
Rangoon, in Burma, is a shrine containing relics of Buddha. This sacred site is
topped with many extraordinary gilded pagodas, and contains a remarkable 43-ton
bell, one of the largest in the Far East.
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