Both Hindu and Buddhist architecture reinforces the importance of Mount Meru with towers and temples evoking its sacred peak and garden monuments or water structures echoing its position in the ...

Among the hundreds of surviving temples in the region, the vast complex is easily Cambodia’s most famous sacred site—it ... symbolizing the peaks of Mount Meru, the dwelling place of the ...

It is seen as a representation of the sacred Mount Meru of Hindu mythology, or as the home of more ancient Javanese spirits, and as one of the forces governing the fortunes of the old royal city of ...

One of the world ’s holiest mountains, Buddhists call it Mount Meru, the central axis of the universe, while Hindus believe it is the home of the God of Shiva. Thousands of pilgrims make the ...