Anyone a practitioner of the Angkor Wat religion?

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Anyone a believer in the Angkor Wat religion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat
http://www.sacredsites.com/asia/cambodi ... r_wat.html

http://www.beliefnet.com/

Anyone ever travel to Angkor Wat to lay a flower wreath at the base of one of the religious statues there?

Experiences?

It's just Hinduism with a mixture of South-East Asian animism. It's quite similar to Hinduism in Bali and Eastern Java. The dominant sect in South-East Asian Hinduism was always Shaivite. Some elements of SE Hinduism crept into Theravada Buddhism practiced there, such as veneration of Brahma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phra_Phrom

Worship of Brahma is very rare in Hinduism. There were only two major temples in history - one in Pushkar in India (still of importance), the other in the Khmer Empire. Hence the veneration of Phra Phrom.

I was at Angkor Wat for the total solar eclipse in 1995. I would not describe it as a religious experience, but it certainly was awe-inspiring.

you should post some pictures of that, must have been incredible