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India to Replicate Cambodia’s Angkor Wat
Indians who haven’t yet seen Cambodia’s 12th-century Angkor Wat temple have reason to cheer: the World Heritage site is being recreated on the banks of holy River Ganges, in the eastern state of Bihar.
To be built by the privately-run Bihar Mahavir Mandir Trust, the temple will have five stories and stand 222-feet tall. It will be taller than Tamil Nadu’s Brihadeeswarar temple, making it the “tallest Hindu temple in the world,” the trust announced Monday. The estimated cost of the 10-year long project is about $20 million, or one billion rupees, the trust says.
So what inspired this initiative?
“I have always been fascinated by the beauty and grandeur of Angkor Wat,” Acharya Kishore Kunal, secretary of the trust, told The Wall Street Journal. “Recreating the masterpiece would be a tribute to India,” he added.
Built during the reign of Hindu King Suryavarman II, Angkor Wat is one of Cambodia’s prime tourist destinations. Spread across a sprawling campus of 203-acres, the temple was chiefly dedicated to Lord Vishnu, one of the Hindu Gods, until the late 13th century. In the years ahead, the temple became dedicated to Lord Buddha.
Its Indian replica, “Virat Angkor Wat Ram Mandir,” will be built on a 40-acre campus on the Hajipur-Bidupur road, about 20 kilometers from Bihar’s state capital, Patna, the trust says.
The place where the temple will be built is, “no ordinary site,” Mr. Kunal says. Legend has it that Hindu deity, Ram, and his brother Lakshman set foot here, he adds. Lord Ram is chiefly worshiped by Hindus across the globe and believed to be an earthly incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
Mr. Kunal claims that the temple venture will “drastically boost” tourism in India, although the country’s tourism officials appear oblivious of the initiative.
“We have not heard or seen any news reports of the temple,” a spokeswoman for India’s Ministry of Tourism said. In Bihar, Priteshwar Prasad, the assistant director of tourism, said he had, “no knowledge” of the shrine. India Real Time has more.
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Cambodia against plan to build replica Angkor Wat in India
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia does not support an India's Hindu Trust Organisation for its plan to construct a replica of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple in India, warning that such action could affect the two nations bilateral ties.
"There is only one Angkor Wat in the world, it is the Cambodia 's Angkor Wat temple, which was listed as one of the World Heritage Sites in 1992," Cambodian Minister of Culture and Fine Arts Him Chhem told reporters yesterday.
He added that Cambodia does not support the construction of the duplicated new Angkor Wat temple in India, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
Chhem made these remarks after a news report reported that the Bihar Mahavir Mandir Trust, a Hindu organisation on March 5 started work on a US$20 million stone replica of Angkor Wat in India's eastern state of Bihar.
The project was reportedly planned to complete in 10 years.
The minister said that the replica of Angkor Wat by the Hindu Trust could affect the friendship between Cambodia and India.
Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple was built in the late 11th century and the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II. The temple attracted 1.6 million foreign tourists last year, an increase of 23 percent from 1.3 million a year earlier, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Tourism.
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Shameless indian is trying to steal our historical culture Angkor Wat and replicate it to the second one to cheat the World, how shameless indian are.
How thick face you keep come up here and blame on the Chinese about stealing/ or copying everything from people while the TRUTH is showing us, YOU indian are the MOST shameless THIEF ever!!! :angy:
@indian: STOP your robbing on others culture!!!
India to Replicate Cambodia’s Angkor Wat
Indians who haven’t yet seen Cambodia’s 12th-century Angkor Wat temple have reason to cheer: the World Heritage site is being recreated on the banks of holy River Ganges, in the eastern state of Bihar.
To be built by the privately-run Bihar Mahavir Mandir Trust, the temple will have five stories and stand 222-feet tall. It will be taller than Tamil Nadu’s Brihadeeswarar temple, making it the “tallest Hindu temple in the world,” the trust announced Monday. The estimated cost of the 10-year long project is about $20 million, or one billion rupees, the trust says.
So what inspired this initiative?
“I have always been fascinated by the beauty and grandeur of Angkor Wat,” Acharya Kishore Kunal, secretary of the trust, told The Wall Street Journal. “Recreating the masterpiece would be a tribute to India,” he added.
Built during the reign of Hindu King Suryavarman II, Angkor Wat is one of Cambodia’s prime tourist destinations. Spread across a sprawling campus of 203-acres, the temple was chiefly dedicated to Lord Vishnu, one of the Hindu Gods, until the late 13th century. In the years ahead, the temple became dedicated to Lord Buddha.
Its Indian replica, “Virat Angkor Wat Ram Mandir,” will be built on a 40-acre campus on the Hajipur-Bidupur road, about 20 kilometers from Bihar’s state capital, Patna, the trust says.
The place where the temple will be built is, “no ordinary site,” Mr. Kunal says. Legend has it that Hindu deity, Ram, and his brother Lakshman set foot here, he adds. Lord Ram is chiefly worshiped by Hindus across the globe and believed to be an earthly incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
Mr. Kunal claims that the temple venture will “drastically boost” tourism in India, although the country’s tourism officials appear oblivious of the initiative.
“We have not heard or seen any news reports of the temple,” a spokeswoman for India’s Ministry of Tourism said. In Bihar, Priteshwar Prasad, the assistant director of tourism, said he had, “no knowledge” of the shrine. India Real Time has more.
Effect:
Cambodia against plan to build replica Angkor Wat in India
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia does not support an India's Hindu Trust Organisation for its plan to construct a replica of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple in India, warning that such action could affect the two nations bilateral ties.
"There is only one Angkor Wat in the world, it is the Cambodia 's Angkor Wat temple, which was listed as one of the World Heritage Sites in 1992," Cambodian Minister of Culture and Fine Arts Him Chhem told reporters yesterday.
He added that Cambodia does not support the construction of the duplicated new Angkor Wat temple in India, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
Chhem made these remarks after a news report reported that the Bihar Mahavir Mandir Trust, a Hindu organisation on March 5 started work on a US$20 million stone replica of Angkor Wat in India's eastern state of Bihar.
The project was reportedly planned to complete in 10 years.
The minister said that the replica of Angkor Wat by the Hindu Trust could affect the friendship between Cambodia and India.
Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple was built in the late 11th century and the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II. The temple attracted 1.6 million foreign tourists last year, an increase of 23 percent from 1.3 million a year earlier, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Tourism.
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Shameless indian is trying to steal our historical culture Angkor Wat and replicate it to the second one to cheat the World, how shameless indian are.
How thick face you keep come up here and blame on the Chinese about stealing/ or copying everything from people while the TRUTH is showing us, YOU indian are the MOST shameless THIEF ever!!! :angy:
@indian: STOP your robbing on others culture!!!
You bastard must 
its not the government plan but a plan by rich guy. You cambodian are jumping on single heritage, we have hundreds of them.
