Introduction to Bakheng Temple: Phnom Bakheng is located 1.3 kilometers north of Angkor Wat on the 67-meter-high Bakheng Mountain. It is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva among the Angkor monuments in Cambodia. It was built by Wu in the 9th century. It was built by King Yasovarman I of the Kolkata Dynasty. The temple mountain is a steep five-level platform, square, 13 meters high, and the bottom layer is 76 meters long, gradually shrinking to a top layer of 47 meters long; the steep temple mountain symbolizes Mount Sumeru. The five pagodas on the top of Temple Mountain symbolize the five peaks of Mount Xumi. In the center of the four sides of the platform, there are five steep stone steps, each with ten steps, leading directly to the top platform of the temple. On the left and right sides of each stone step, there are guarded by a pair of seated lions. Some of the stone lions have been damaged and cannot be seen as lions.

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