PREAH PALILAY
One of the Buddhist temples not ransacked by the Brahmin reaction of the century, featuring a cross-shaped terrace known as the Royal Terrace.
This small Buddhist sanctuary, built north of the Terrace of Elephants, is one of the few remaining Buddhist temples not to have been ransacked by the Brahmin reaction of the 13th century. A number of bas-reliefs recounting passages from the life of the Enlightened One can be admired on the stone. Preah Palilay comprises a cross-shaped terrace, known as the Royal Terrace, some thirty meters long. A surrounding wall pierced by a gopura delimits the terrace. At the top is the central sanctuary, in the form of a pyramidal tower some 20 m high.
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