Monday, August 20, 2012

Khmer-style building in Koh Phangan, Thailand

(Photo credit: S. H.)
Location of Koh Phangan, near Koh Samui (Google map)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Claimed and keep bragging as you want, but this is called "Hindu Temple architecture" not Khmer.

Anonymous said...

You got a serious psychological problem, buddy.

Anonymous said...

i think thailand laos is a part of cambodia, that's why they always build temples, etc like in cambodia. well, we know from history that thailand and laos was strongly influenced by the khmer civilization of angkor from cambodia. so, i'm not surprised at all to see lots of khmer style temples, etc in thailand and laos, really! of course, they thailand and laos were influenced stronly by cambodia civilization of angkor. these three cambodia shared the same khmer heritage, you know, believe it or not; it's the fact, really!

Keo Cham said...

The towers and spirals are quite unique amongst Hindu temples built in India and those built by other "Hindunization/Indianize" poeple such as the Khmers, Burmese, Javanese/Indonesians, and even the "Siamese" themselves as we see from examples of Sukhothei.

Only an buffoon cannot make this distinction after a quick comparative studies of these temples.

Although, scientist have come to very surprising conclusions recently in studies of symbol recognition. Monkeys tend make far better matching and recognizing certain symbols then some human...


Having said thus, I am not against these replication. Imitation is cannot be real.

It only glorifies the real deal. No reason get riled up. This actually looks like the Phimai complex - the real Khmer temple that lies in Thailand today.



Anonymous said...

Siem thugs go back to their homeland in Nanchao!

Anonymous said...

Thai was born to hate the Khmer people, but they copies a lot of thing from Khmer.
Believe or not, but Hindu or not Hindu, all kinds of believe, cultures, arts and society life are always belonging to the Khmer people.