Prasat Bayon

Site common name	Prasat Bayon
Type of artwork	Architecture
Village	-
Province/City	Angkor
State	Siem Reap
Country	Cambodia
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 13.441111 Long : 103.858611

History of production	Jayavarman VII ordered his new city, Angkor Thom, to be constructed overlapping the old city of Angkor belonging to Yashovarman. Dedicated to the Mahayanist Buddha, Bayon was conceived to be the center of his new city and was surrounded by the wall of three–kilometer long. The gateways were designated for the city wall at four sides. This city has been erected for the auspiciousness of the kingdom following the attack by the Chams before his reign.
Art	Bayon is considered to be the last stepped-platform temple. It was dedicated to the Buddha of Mahayana concept, simultaneous incarnation as the king himself. The faces on towers are iconographically problematic. Some believe that the faces reflect the face of the king himself. The multiplicity of towers makes Bayon to be more complicate than Angkor Wat. However, the non-symmetrical plan of Bayon is considered by scholars to be the starting point of the decline of Cambodian art. The central tower is planned as the circular temple with several sanctums. This is possible to coincide with the Mandala or the diagram in Mahayana Buddhism.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Bayon
Age	12th century A.D.
Religion	Buddhism
Sect	Mahayana

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-07-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali