Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: Secrets of Angkor Wat: Back to Cambodia

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Secrets of Angkor Wat: Back to Cambodia

Praveen Mohan (patreon.com); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Maya P. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhist Temple of Angkor Wat, Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia (flickr.com)

Everything we're told about Buddhist Angkor Wat is WRONG! Impossible Ancient Technology (Part II)

(Praveen Mohan, 10/15/20) Let's uncover secrets by looking into the mysterious "temple" (wat) at the center of Angkor (Yaśodharapura), Angkor Wat, in Cambodia. PM (Praveen Mohan) takes us there.

This massive temple, the world's largest, is a map of our world with Mt. Meru at its center.

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This is the largest temple in the world -- larger than unexcavated Mes Aynak in Buddhist Afghanistan and excavated Borobudur Buddhist pyramid in Java, Indonesia.

Historians say Angkor Wat was built only 900 years ago with simple tools and a lot of human power. But by the end of this presentation, viewers will agree that this cannot be true at all.

Some may already know that this is the largest religious monument in the world, but how big is it? The temple complex stretches more than 400 acres, which is more than three times the size of Vatican City in the Holy See.

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Catholicism's St. Peter's basilica in Vatican City is tiny by comparison to Angkor Wat.

Vatican City, a city-state in Rome that is its own sovereign nation, is a fraction of Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat is about 300 times the size of an American football field. Even if we were to take out all the walking spaces and empty land, the sheer area covered by stone blocks is at least 10 million square feet.

But we are not looking at just a two dimensional area. We must consider the volume in three dimensions (3-D) because Angkor Wat is made of various layers of stone blocks, pillars, ceilings, and towers.

Intricate bas reliefs tell stories of space people (devas) engaged in various historical acts.

This mandala is a map of our world.

The iconic central towers, which look something like drill bits, are the tallest structures in this city, representing as they do the tallest mountains in this world-system composed of four to six distinct worlds (cakkavala), Mt. Sumeru and other peaks. It is this way even after all these years.

The central tower is 213 feet tall and is actually printed on the Cambodian flag. So imagine the volume of rocks needed to build a temple that stretches for 10 million square feet and has a pyramidal height of more than 200 feet.

If we calculate the weight of all the sandstone blocks that make up this Buddhist-Hindu pyramid, we come to about 52 million tons of rock.

One hundred million plus tons of rock

By using a calculator to estimate the weight of this magnificent construction, using the density of sandstone, we come to an astonishing 100 million tons of rock and more depending on what's included.

We have left out the rocks in the foundation, not included the millions of stone blocks going many feet deep in the moat, or the rocks placed around the moat. That is already 52 million tons of rock. Let's take only 20% of this number to derive a very conservative estimate, because Angkor Wat is not a solid pyramid. There are many hollow spaces in between.

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Taking even less than 20%, using only 10,000,000 tons, that way we know at least this many rocks were used to build the temple. Why calculate the weight of the temple's stone blocks? Archeologists and historians argue that the entire temple was built in just 37 years, which is preposterous.

The standard theory of artisans using hammers and chisels to build temples is untenable, but they cannot accept that advanced [heavenly space alien] technology of the devas was employed -- stone cutting lasers, advanced mathematics, stone levitation, and so on.

Let's assume that only human artists worked from sunrise to sunset every day for 37 years. They worked for 12 hours straight with no breaks, not eating, not blinking, no rainy days off, no wars, no festivals...for 37 years. That is a total of 162,060 hours.

If we divide the number of rocks by the number of hours, we get approximately 60 tons. This means that workers would have had to cut and place 60 tons of rock every hour. This is a ton of rock every minute. So for every minute they have to measure, cut, carve, lift, place, and align a ton of rock? This is simply IMPOSSIBLE.

That cannot be accomplished even today, even with modern machinery and methods. We have not yet developed the technology to measure, cut, position, and polish a ton of rock of every minute. That's more than 2,000 pounds (1,000 kg) of rock every minute.