Ta Prohm (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម, UNGEGN: Ta Prôhm, ALA-LC: Tā Brahm[taːprom]; "Ancestor Brahma") is the modern name of a temple near the city of Siem Reap, Cambodia, approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray. It was built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th century and early 13th century and was originally called Rajavihara (Khmer: រាជវិហារ, UNGEGN: Réachvĭhar, ALA-LC: Rājvihār[riəc.vihiə]; "Royal Monastery"). It was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and center of learning dedicated to his mother.[1] Almost 80,000 people were required to live in or visit the temple, including over 2,700 officials and 615 dancers.[1]
The temple is referred to as the "Tomb Raider Temple" or the "Angelina Jolie Temple" due to its depiction in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).[1][2]
The temple was built without mortar and, after it was abandoned, trees took root in the loosened stones.[3] The trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of the most popular temples with visitors to the area.[3] It has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1992.
^ abc"Ta Prohm". Lonely Planet.
^Shoard, Catherine (25 November 2010). "Holy Jolie: Cambodian temple takes Angelina's name". The Guardian.
other symbols instead of Khmer script. TaProhm (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម, UNGEGN: TaPrôhm, ALA-LC: Tā Brahm [taː prom]; "Ancestor Brahma") is the modern...
The "dinosaur of TaProhm" is a bas-relief in the Khmer Empire temple-monastery of TaProhm. Numerous reliefs of various different animals are present...
TaProhm Kel or Prohm Kel (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្មកិល ឬ ព្រហ្មកិល) is a small ruined sandstone monument in Angkor archaeological park, Siem Reap province...
reservoirs. Thereafter, he built a pair of temples in honor of his parents: TaProhm in honor of his mother and Preah Khan in honor of his father.: 125–129 ...
surrounded by enclosure laterite walls. Like the nearby Preah Khan and TaProhm the temple was left largely unrestored, with numerous trees and other vegetation...
Hindu satellite temples and numerous later additions. Like the nearby TaProhm, Preah Khan has been left largely unrestored, with numerous trees and other...
Preah Ko Preah Palilay Preah Pithu Pre Rup Spean Thma Srah Srang Ta Nei TaProhmTa Som Ta Keo Terrace of the Elephants Terrace of the Leper King Thommanon...
out of stone. Further important temples built under Jayavarman VII were TaProhm for his mother, Preah Khan for his father,: 388–389 Banteay Kdei, and...
serpents (with feet and claws) found in Chinese art. But among the ruins of TaProhm, near a huge stone entrance, one can see that the "roundels on pilasters...
had a consistent structural composition. Inscriptional evidence from the TaProhm inscription (1186 CE) attests to 102 Arogayasala across Jayavarman VII's...
noticed that the statue of TaProhm, which his predecessors had been guided to by the local Khmer who honored it as a neak ta, had been taken away. Locals...
form of the temple proper. Under the southern tower is a statue known as Ta Reach, originally an eight-armed statue of Vishnu that may have occupied the...
Archbishop of Tyre. Jayavarman VII, the king of Cambodia, founds the temple of TaProhm. After the death of the child-king Baldwin V, his mother succeeds him as...
other foundations participated in the style of the Bayon, and included TaProhm, Preah Khan, Angkor Thom, and Banteay Chmar. Though grandiose in plan and...
for the walls and nāga-bridges of Angkor Thom and the temples of Vishnu, TaProhm and Banteay Kdei. The similarity of the 216 gigantic faces on the temple's...
marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Khmer script. Ta Keo (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាកែវ, Prasat Ta Kêv [praːsaːt taːkaew]) is a temple-mountain in Angkor (Cambodia)...
late 12th-century monarch Jayavarman VII and still found in Preah Khan, TaProhm and Banteay Chhmar. The Sanskrit name of the dharmasala can only translate...
construction of Ta Prohm, which was originally named Rajavihara. According to the temple stele, in C.E. 1186 Jayavarman VII dedicated TaProhm in his mother's...
temples required an equally large body of workers to maintain them; at TaProhm, a stone carving states that 12,640 people serviced that single temple...
the Great Wall of China, Independence Hall, Fort Santiago, Angkor Wat, TaProhm, Wawel Castle, Banteay Srei, and Rouen Cathedral's Butter Tower, which...
of the Khmer Empire. Archaeobotanical investigations at Angkor Wat and TaProhm have identified macroremains of rice, sesame, mung beans, crepe ginger...
Lara Croft. After filming for the first movie at the Cambodian temple TaProhm, the local inhabitants called it the "Angelina Jolie Temple" and local...
tourists and people who live locally. Close to the lake, there is the TaProhm of Bati, one of several shelters built in Cambodia and Thailand during...
Kulen Prasat Kravan Preah Khan Pre Rup Spean Thma Srah Srang Ta Keo Ta Nei TaProhmTa Som Thommanon West Baray West Mebon Angkor Thom Angkor Thom Baphuon...
Phanom Rung is an extinct volcano 386 metres (1,266 ft) in elevation in Ta Pek subdistrict, Chaloem Phra Kiat district, Buriram. The name comes from...
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