King Jayavarman VII

Sunday, May 14, 2023

The third of the Linga temples at Koh Ker is one I’ve highlighted before

The third of the Linga temples at Koh Ker is one I’ve highlighted before, as the conservation team began excavation work in February to provide more background to this little-known structure. It’s the only Linga

Khmer Art Overseas: Looking at the Khmer artifacts that Weschler’s auctioneers in the USA have handled, in 2013 they sold a

Sculpture from the Angkor National Museum: In memory of King Jayavarman VII’s first wife, Jayarajadevi, who died not long after he became king in 1181AD, his

Cambodia has lost one of its long-standing and most influential scholars

Cambodia has lost one of its long-standing and most influential scholars, with the passing of Darryl Collins yesterday. I met Darryl for the first time in October 2009 and wrote the following blog post about his impact on Cambodia:

As Cambodia gears itself up to host the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games for the very first time next month, one of the country’s sporting heroes has quietly returned home from the United States to test her fitness with a view to joining the women’s football team,

In June of last year, after years of investigations and seizures by Homeland Security and the New York District Attorney’s office, a collection of 27 pieces of Khmer art were handed over to the Cambodian Ambassador in New York and a few of those were on display at the Peace Palace exhibition of recently repatriated Khmer artifacts, presided over by Prime

I return to the Angkor National Museum to present a second sandstone image of the Mother of All Buddhas, the goddess Prajnaparamita, easily identified by the tell-tale Amitabha Buddha etched into the front of her conical bun headdress. Prajnaparamita was a hugely popular iconic deity in the reign of Jayavarman VII from the last quarter of the 12th century,