Nokor Bachey Temple

Geographical location

Nokor Bachey Temple is located in Kompong Cham Province, 2 km from the provincial town of Kampong Cham and a total of 122 km from Phnom Penh. The temple was built by the 13th century King Jayavarman VII by the pattern Bayon style. In the vicinity of the temple, the high visibility stands firmly against the temple, and the four front doors of the temple, alongside the walls, remain firm, without any shaking. The original vision of this temple is dedicated to Buddhism and Hinduism, so far, the condition of the temple is very good for sightseeing, leaving the statue as well as the carvings in all defaults. . The post-Angkorian Buddhist temple is well-established in the original architectural pattern.

Name          : Prasat Nokor Bachey

Builders       : Jayavarman VII

Built date     : early 13th century

Dedicated to: Mahayana Buddhism

Architecture : Bayon style

Location       : Kampong Cham Province

Architecture

Nokor Bachey temple is an ancient temple constructed in the late twelfth century by Jayavarman VII for Mahayana Buddhism. The temple has now completely lost its original shape. First of all, I would like to make a brief overview of the layout of the temple in my own observations. The temple is about 500m x 500m, it has three walls and four large gopuras. You can go to the Gopura in the east and the south legend, and you will find many ruins in the west to the village. The first ramparts were broken and slippery, and the 2nd and 3rd ramparts kept the original shape enough for us to notice. In the second rampart, there are two small ponds that now are shallow and may fall in the future. The castle in the third ramp has been transformed into a huge shrine that you can see in the left-hand corner. The temple is in the Bayon style, and although Jayavarman VII, Mahayana Buddhism, no temples are constructed on top of such stupas, and the mausoleum and the chapel adjacent to the shrine are built later.

Legend

The temple has an interesting legend, and there are stupas and temples as evidence. Shortly afterwards, there were two people, a couple having a son, diving in a raging river, slamming their babies into the water, but suddenly a big fish grabbed the baby. The fisherman was caught by a Chinese fisherman and brought to the king because the fish was unusually large after the baby was born, and the baby was born alive. The boy, who was tall and tall, asked the king about his origins, and he asked for the adoptive parents to find their parents in Cambodia. When he arrived, he went to ask his mum and dad for a long time, without knowing he had sex with his mother. Later, when the grandfather (name of the child) knew the cause, he apologized for his mother's mother, and ordered that she be made a mummy when her mother died and had to build a puppet for her mother when she died. Every 5,000 years has passed away. Chao Phrabao, with high rank, became a village teacher in the village, and ordered the students to build at his mother's orders. When he died, he built a salad to the shrine and his name was called Ta Prohm, and his mother called her grandmother until now. Today, in the second rampart, a temple, known as the Yeay Po temple, at Ta Prohm, is at the first floor, in Chinese and mixed Khmer. The shrine in this statue is the name of the locals who believe this is the grandparents. Another strange thing is that in the temple grounds, there is a pagoda two called Wat Nokor Bachey outside in the southeast of the temple and the other is Wat Nokor Bachey in the northwest temple. I do not know whether these two temples have one or two different chief priests, but only by seeing the entrance to the pagoda next to National Road 7, Wat Nokor Bachey without mentioning that inside or outside. At the intersection and gateway, you can cross the country and you will see an ancient giant pond that is now called "Oum". The pond, which was long used by the Sangkum Reastr Niyum as a horse rink, later the people took it to the pond to make rice, but occasionally there was a big rain. A lot of juice.

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