Word: angkor
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...first, these unorthodox interpretations of revenge seem less personal than traditional-an attitude inherited from an agrarian people accustomed to gentleness and passivity. To be sure, there was a long time, between the 9th and 15th centuries, when Khmer culture sustained a golden age-the period of Angkor Wat with its five peaked towers and massive stone gods. But fundamentally, Cambodia has remained a village nation, and the values of Pol Pot, not to mention his horrors, must have seemed as shocking as they were terrifying. The children in Khao I Dang have simple values. They have been taught...
Three Cambodian heads gazed nobly at the reader from the glossy cover of Arts of Asia, an elegant and respected bi-monthly published in Hong Kong. The sandstone faces, 900-year-old survivors of the fabled Khmer kingdom of Angkor, had been chosen to set the theme of a recent issue devoted to antique Cambodian art, a high-priced passion among collectors around the world. Few readers knew that the images on the cover had been given new noses and restorative face-lifts by a young Thai artist known simply as Yas. Or that Yas, in his busy, unnamed shop...
...imitations. "Dealers used to bring in all these fakes to be mounted," Yas recalls. "I thought I could make better ones." He was soon experimenting with stone and chisel, and just four years ago he sold his first reproduction, a small torso carved in the style of 11th century Angkor...
...usually works with sandstone blocks from the northeast of Thailand, an area once ruled by the Angkor kings, which provide him with the same kind of stone used for the Angkor temples. He carefully gives each sculpture its own personality. After giving life to the figure, he gives it years as well, usually breaking the head from the body just as the centuries have done to the originals. "When you break the neck off," he explains with professional pride, "it must look natural." He heats the sculpture with a hair dryer, paints it with a secret chemical solution, and buries...
...suffering springs from desire; 3) this desire can be extinguished by 4) following the Buddha's path of truthful and chaste behavior. The introspective Theravada school of Buddhism is predominant on the plains of Thailand and western Kampuchea, where the faith was once centered in the fabulous Angkor Wat. In Viet Nam, whose Mayahana school permits social concern alongside withdrawal of the self, Buddhists have sometimes supported nationalist movements, but rarely actively...