Chinese are excelling in every field, is common knowledge. They have begun to take the world by storm, if not done that already. It is not a new phenomenon. Sun Tzu and his ilk gave a new insight into fundamental thinking. Zhou Daguan was a similar man who visited Angkor Wat nearly 840 years ago and …
Angkor has matchless attraction, matchless beauty and matchless in its massiveness. Nothing else comes close to it, in any sense.
It is the people who make Angkor what it is? Well, Angkor is Angkor. They were wise men and women who created this masterpiece like none else. People come there as a magnet attracts fragments of iron. But, they surely make themselves counted as they throng the Holy abode of the Gods. They do. The …
‘Will you be here by 5 AM tomorrow?’, I asked Phiya, the Tuk tuk Driver who had taken me around from Banteay Srei to Angkor and most other temple complexes on day 01 of my second visit to Angkor in two months. He was more reassuring than my skepticism of him. Bidding him a bye …
The entire complexion of my horizon, and my life appear to be changing. Thoughts becoming more caring, more connecting and actions more accommodating. Nichamon Effect, I suppose. Or Nicomachean Effect. Lord’s Will : eBook in 18 Languages Either it is Lord’s Will, as I perceive it or some plain stroke of His Kind Blessings. Never …
Remorse weighing down my conscience. Weighing down ever since I had read that my own ilk – the humans, had not so long ago, committed yet another heinous act. This time round against the very creator – The God Lord Himself; at Angkor. Someone had to do something to atone that sin, one thought. Yes, a …
Both, Wonders and wonderful. Both Temples dedicated to Supreme Being. Both met almost similar fate. The former at the hands of Herostratus while the other by Khmer Rouge; at least in major part. Other responsibility could be ascribed to lack of care over centuries after the Kings left the scene. The former at Ephesus lies …
Restoring The Temples of Artemis and Angkor back unto Him Read More »
The Radiance Innumerable degrees of bliss & serenity are expressed in the faces of celestials; The Gods. Their radiance reflects the features of the people who worship them, and perhaps who had carved them; having learned the style of work from seers of a particular tradition. These are proportioned accordingly (thence the answer to the …
The Ultimate meaning pf life appears different to different people. Beginning with Socrates, Pluto and Aristotle to contemporary thinkers, all have evolved separate approaches to life. Some want to describe it as a pleasurable event whilst the others want us to indulge in making the world a better place than what it was before we …