November 24, 2010
By WENN.COM
Angelina Jolie has been handed a major unofficial honour in her adopted son Maddox’s native Cambodia - a world-famous Hindu temple has been named after her.
Rajan Zed, the president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, tells WENN the movie star is so beloved in Cambodia one religious site in Angkor has been renamed the Angelina Jolie Temple.
He says, "It's a 12th century site called Ta Prohm; it is otherwise known as Old Brahma and was initially named Rajavihara or the royal monastery. Now it's popularly called the Angelina Jolie Temple.
"It was said to be the setting for various scenes in the first Tomb Raider film... Local restaurants sell Tomb Raider cocktails and she appears to be the patron saint of Cambodia."
Zed insists the unofficial renaming comes with a great responsibility - and he'd like the actress to consider helping to maintain the ancient site.
He adds, "I'd urge Angelina Jolie to raise awareness about better preservation of this world heritage as more needs to be done to safeguard the temple complex and its surroundings, save it from vandalism and looting."
8 comments:
Sorry but it is bullshit to rename a temple because of a quite bad movie.
What we get next?
A "KFC"-temple or a "Disney"-temple?
Cambodia should keep its dignity.
I am a little surprised. I've always thought that they will rename it to "Hun San's Temple" or "Bun Rany's Temple". So to rename it to "Angelina Julie's Temple", though it's crazy but still it's preferable to renaming it to either of those two evils' names.
Cambodia is getting crazier everyday. I really hope they won't rename Angkor Wat to something else.
Are you kidding me? It is such a crazy idea to rename the historical temple. You will lose everything.
It is not the official name.
It is the local and tourist nickname because it become famous in her movie and she made Siem Reap become internationally respected again.
The original name is still correct but it is a good way to introduce Khmer temple to the world by connection with the movie star.
That is a good thing.
NO ONE ON THIS PLANET CAN'T CHANGE THE NAME OF OUR PRASATH TA PROM.
THE KHMER DESCENTS WILL NOT MAKE THAT KIND OF STUPID DECISION:
Are you kidding me naming a political party after a bull shiet name as Sam Rainsy?
Folks,
The Tomb Raider was filmed at Boeng Mealea Temple that situated closed to KohKer Temple not at Taprom, just in case you don't know.
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