Baphuon

Baphuon
Religion
DeityShiva
Location
LocationAngkor Thom
CountryCambodia
Baphuon is located in Cambodia
Baphuon
Shown within Cambodia
Geographic coordinates13°26′37″N 103°51′21″E / 13.44361°N 103.85583°E / 13.44361; 103.85583
Architecture
CreatorUdayadityavarman II
Completedthe mid-11th century
Pen and watercolor reconstruction of what the temple may have looked in the 11th century by Lucien Fournereau in 1889.

The Baphuon (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបាពួន) is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia. It is located in Angkor Thom, northwest of the Bayon. Also called "golden mountain" (svarnādrī), the Baphuon is built on an artificial hill. The temple was originally dedicated to Shiva and late converted to a Theravada Buddhist temple.[1] The dating of the temple has been fractious; recent work has shown that it was not built during the reign of Udayādityavarman II, as is popularly reported. In 2015 a French team directly dates four iron crampons integrated into the structure using the AMS Carbon-14 method, revealed the construction was much earlier than thought and can now be considered as the major temple associated with Suryavarman I (1010–1050CE), a ruler which had no temple previously associated with his reign.[2]

  1. ^ GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MONUMENTS AND HISTORIC SITES III. Renato Lancellotta, Carlo Viggiani, Alessandro Flora, Filomena de Silva, Lucia Mele. BOCA RATON: CRC PRESS. 2022. pp. 325–336. ISBN 1-003-30886-4. OCLC 1319199240.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Leroy, Stéphanie; Hendrickson, Mitch; Delqué-Kolic, Emmanuelle; Vega, Enrique; Dillmann, Philippe (2015). "First Direct Dating for the Construction and Modification of the Baphuon Temple Mountain in Angkor, Cambodia". PLOS ONE. 10 (11): e0141052. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141052. PMC 4633138. PMID 26535895.