CAMBODIAN ARCHITECTURE

Central sanctuary

• home to the temples deity

Prang

• tall-finger like spire

Gallery

• passage running along the wall of an enclosure

Gopura

• entrance building; passage through the enclosure walls

• Hall of Dancers

• found in certain late 12th century temples

• Library

• function broadly as religious shrines

• Srah and Baray

• reservoirs

• Largest : West and East Baray

• Temple Mountain

• dominant scheme for the construction of state temples in the Angkorian Period

• Bas-Reliefs

• individual figures or entire scenes into stone walls

• Blind Door and Window

• open in the east direction

• to maintain symmetry

• Colonette

• narrow decorative columns that served as supports for the beams

• Corbelling

• used to construct rooms , passageways

Lintel

• horizontal beam connecting two vertical columns

• Pediment

• roughly triangular structure

• Tympanum

• decorated surface of the pediment

• ASPARAS AND DEVATAS

• divine nymphs or female spirits of cloud and waters ( Asparas)

• Devata- diety

• DVARAPALA

• human or demonic guardians ; protect the temples

• GAJASIMHA AND REACHISEY

• animal with the body of a lion and head of elephant

• GARUDA

• part man part bird

• INDRA

• sky god

• KALA

• ferocious monster

• KRISHNA

• hero and avatar of the God Vishnu

• LINGA

• Phallic post of god Shiva

• Makara

• sea monster; body of a serpent

• NAGA

• mythical serpent

1. Angkor Wat

• temple complex by Suryavarman

1. Phnom Bakheng

• First temple at angkor

1. Prasat Kravan

• five brick towers and brick bas relief

Ta Keo

• irst major temple made of sandstone