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BuddhismWat Langka
· Cambodia · monastery
One of the five oldest Buddhist pagodas in Phnom Penh, founded in the fifteenth century to safeguard the Tripitaka and to host gatherings between Khmer and Sri Lankan monks.
BuddhismWat Phnom
· Cambodia · monastery
The hilltop pagoda from which Phnom Penh takes its name, founded according to legend in 1372 by a woman named Penh to enshrine Buddha images and a Vishnu statue found in a floating koki tree.