Wat Phou Champassak: From Early Buddhist Images to the Hindu Khmer Temples and the Return of Buddhism
The fascinating religious and artistic history of one of the most important sacred landscapes of mainland Southeast Asia. A sacred mountain with a changing religious history At the foot of Phou Kao Mountain, overlooking the Mekong River in southern Laos, Wat Phou Champassak preserves the traces of a remarkable religious transformation. Today, the site is recognised as one of the great monuments of Khmer civilisation and remains an important place of Buddhist pilgrimage. Yet its history is...