Angkor

ANGKOR RELIGION

Early Religion
When the Khmer Empire was formed in the early 9th Century, it was mainly Hindu, until the end of the 12th century, when the empire became Mahanaya Buddhist. This didn't last long. Sometime later, when the Sri Lankan race diffused throughout Asia, they spread their own type of Buddhism, Thevarada Buddhism, to the Khmers. Though the Khmers were followers of these foreign religions, they did not forget their local Gods and deities, like the Master of the Land, and human heroes that became Gods after death.

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