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Wat Ounalon |
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This wat is the headquarters of Cambodian Buddhism. It was
founded in 1443 and comprises 44 structures. The wat received a
battering during the Pol Pot era, but today it has come back to
life. The head of the country’s Buddhist brotherhood lives here,
along with a large number of monks.
On the 2nd floor of the
main building, to the left of the dais, is a statue of Huot Tat,
fourth patriarch of Cambodian Buddhism, who was killed by Pol
Pot. The statue, made in 1971 when the patriarch was 80 years
old, was thrown in the Mekong by the Khmer Rouge to show that
Buddhism was no longer the driving force in Cambodia. It was
retrieved after 1979. To the right of the dais is a statue of a
former patriarch of the Thummayuth sect, to which the royal
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