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Processional gopuras of Preah Vihear temple on the Dangrek escarpment

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Country Record

Oldest Temple in Cambodia

神殿UNESCO

Preah Vihear

Seyfi Cem Baskin

ប្រាសាទព្រះវិហារ890 西暦 – 1150 西暦

A Khmer cliff-top temple dedicated to Shiva on the Dangrek escarpment, looking north over the Cambodian plain. Built mainly in the 9th–12th centuries and inscribed by UNESCO; long contested at the Thai–Cambodian border.

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所在地

カンボジア

14.39°N · 104.68°E · アジア

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UNESCO

Temple of Preah Vihear (2008)

Setting

Cliff edge of the Dangrek escarpment

Main builders

Yasovarman I to Suryavarman I–II (9th–12th c.)

ICJ

Temple awarded to Cambodia, 1962

“Preah Vihear shows how Khmer state temples used extreme landscape—not only barays and city grids—to stage divine kingship.”

所在地

概要

Preah Vihear occupies a knife-edge promontory of the Dangrek Mountains. A 800 m processional causeway of gopuras and pavements climbs to the sanctuary at the cliff edge—one of the most dramatic approaches in Khmer architecture. Construction spans Yasovarman I through Suryavarman I and II; style phases match Angkorian sandstone work, with pediments of Shiva myths and a commanding view that made the temple a frontier statement as much as a pilgrimage goal.

The International Court of Justice awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962; the surrounding land dispute flared again in the 2000s around UNESCO inscription (2008). Conservation and access have therefore been political as well as technical. Archaeologically the site is clear: a linear temple-mountain adapted to a natural cliff rather than an artificial pyramid.

Pair with Angkor Wat and Wat Phou for Khmer sacred geography at the empire’s edges.

重要性

Preah Vihear shows how Khmer state temples used extreme landscape—not only barays and city grids—to stage divine kingship. It is also a modern lesson: archaeology, UNESCO listing, and borders can collide over the same stones.

証拠と解釈

確立された事実と議論が続く事柄を区別する。

確立された事実

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  • Inscriptions and architectural style phases securely date the sanctuary within the Angkorian Shaiva tradition.

学術的推論

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  • The linear causeway was designed to turn pilgrimage into a staged ascent toward the cliff sanctuary.

議論のある解釈

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  • Interpretation of the 1962 ICJ judgment’s implications for adjacent land (not just the temple footprint) remains geopolitically contested.

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出典

  • Angkor — Jacques, Claude (1999)
  • Temple of Preah Vihear — UNESCO (2008)リンク

よくある質問

Preah Vihearはどこにありますか？

Preah VihearはCambodiaに位置しています。

Preah Vihearの年代はいつ頃ですか？

Preah Vihearはおよそ890 西暦 – 1150 西暦のものとされています。

Preah Vihearはどの文明に関連していますか？

Preah VihearはKhmer文明に関連しています。

Preah Vihearが重要な理由は何ですか？

Preah Vihear shows how Khmer state temples used extreme landscape—not only barays and city grids—to stage divine kingship.

Preah Vihearはユネスコ世界遺産ですか？

はい — Preah Vihearはユネスコ世界遺産に登録されています。

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