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Massive stone faces gaze eternally at one another across the towers of Bayon Temple, their enigmatic smiles enduring beneath a brooding sky threatening rain over Angkor Thom. Built in the late 12th century as King Jayavarman VII's state temple, these 216 serene faces are believed to combine the features of the Buddhist bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara with those of the king himself, creating one of the most recognizable architectural signatures of the Khmer Empire.
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Massive stone faces gaze eternally at one another across the towers of Bayon Temple, their enigmatic smiles enduring beneath a brooding sky threatening rain over Angkor Thom. Built in the late 12th century as King Jayavarman VII's state temple, these 216 serene faces are believed to combine the features of the Buddhist bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara with those of the king himself, creating one of the most recognizable architectural signatures of the Khmer Empire.