Stone mountains built for gods. For more than a thousand years, kingdoms across Cambodia, Java, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam took ideas from India and made them their own. Temples rose as models of Mount Meru, the centre of the Hindu-Buddhist universe, the grandest ringed by moats standing in for the cosmic ocean. The Khmer carved the endless galleries of Angkor and the calm stone faces of the Bayon; Java stacked Borobudur into a pilgrim’s climb toward enlightenment; Bagan filled a single plain with thousands of brick temples.
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