Ancient Library in Jungle Temple of Beng Mealea
A magnificent 11th century library in jungle temple of Beng Mealea — an ancient architecture in the style of Angkor Wat.
Historically Cambodia is a nation of fascinating people of life-long learning. An evidence to prove this is that there are libraries built inside ancient temples. From Preah Khan to Preah Vihear to Beng Mealea to Angkor Wat — where there is temple, there is library. It is particularly part of architectural temples constructed by all religious Cambodian predecessors. Today most of them are lost in the jungles. Unlike the Library of Congress of the United States and the British Museum Reading Room of London, there is no single collection of multimedia other than palm leaf manuscripts.
A library in the site of Preah Viear temple.
Taken in my trip to Preah Vihear province this year.
Tags: Preah Vihear
June 30th, 2006 at 1:52 am
The history of the Angkor temples is really fascinating. What a great culture it was!
John
June 30th, 2006 at 17:07 pm
And I believe the history of predecessors of Cambodia is even greater.
July 1st, 2006 at 9:43 am
Nice article bro.
July 1st, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Soursdey Tharun!The history of the Angkor temples is very fascination.I like the Khmer culture and our homeland.Angkor is very famous architecture all over the world.That is great.
pouthisat
July 1st, 2006 at 16:22 pm
After reading your message to me, I was please to come see what you’ve been up to. I hope that if I get back to Cambodia one of these days, we’ll have a chance to meet in person. Very interesting material!
July 5th, 2006 at 20:51 pm
Very interesting that libraries are a regular feature in temples. It shows how scholarly and learned the Khmers are. Very nice pictures too.
July 10th, 2006 at 1:28 am
Thanks for the thoughtful article and marvelous photos and pointing out some interesting aspects of Khmer culture and history.
July 11th, 2006 at 15:47 pm
This is the best pic I like thus far..so beautiful!!
July 11th, 2006 at 17:09 pm
An interesting topic and beautiful shots..
July 13th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Great shots
July 14th, 2006 at 22:03 pm
nice to see different places of Cambodia via your blog.
view my Cambodian blog at
http://vanndeth.myblog.com
to view World Cup photos and article.
nice to read Cambodian bloggers’ achives.