Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 68
nessedin the gigantic templesthat cover Java; it is seeneven more in the for-tresses, the palaces, andthe temples absorbed little by little by the jungles of Cambodia, the home ofthe mysterious race of the Khmers. They lived in acountry less overwhelming than India, for, despite thedenseness of the… … Khmer Art. Head of Buddha. 42 MEDIEVAL ART come to give something of its peace to the troubledand heavy atmosphere of tropical nature. Finally, fiveor six hundred years after the disappearance of Bud-dhism from Hindustan, perhaps about the tenth centuryof our era, the Khmer people were still…
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