Tep Pranam

Tep Pranam
Tep Pranam
Prasat Tep Pranam
	East entrance and the central sanctuary
Province	Siem Reap
Location
Location	Angkor Thom
Country	Cambodia
	Location in Cambodia
Geographic coordinates	13°26′54″N 103°51′27″E / 13.44833°N 103.85750°E
Architecture
Completed	Circa 16th century

Tep Pranam (Khmer: ប្រាសាទទេពប្រណម្យ) is a temple with a giant seated Buddha, built from sandstone blocks is still worshiped here. The interior of the figure re-uses many stone blocks while the head appears somewhat later.

Plan edit

To the north of the Terrace of the Leper King and the Royal palace, the image is approached from the east along a 75m laterite causeway, 8m wide. This causeway ends on the west in a terrace with double sema (Buddhist boundary markers) at the corners and on the axes. The building housing the image would have been in wood, long since disappeared and was constructed on a cruciform foundation.^[1]

References edit

^ Ancient Angkor guide book, by Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques, p.114, published in 2003.

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[1] Ancient Angkor guide book, by Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques, p.114, published in 2003.

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