Dot Sdach Kumlong Temple

Situated atop Phnom Kulen, it’s the remains of a brick temple, located near the River of 1000 Lingas.

Historical Notes

Prasat Doch Sdach Komlong (The cremation sanctuary of the leper king). – We cannot consider as a building of the great Cambodian era the brick building that is designated by this name and which is located about a hundred meters to the east of Pong Kai, on a rocky area, this despite the pedestals that can still be seen there and which, moreover, would not have been in their place in a crematory monument. It is a rectangular construction, measuring 5 meters wide by about 10 meters long, currently without vault or roof, without windows either, with a single opening in the small east face. The bricks, quite beautiful, are bound by a white cement arranged in thick layers, which is not found in any building of truly Cambodian origin.

Lajonquiere, 1911

In the same region there is a ruin of little interest, the Pr. Doč Sdač Komlon’, which Mr. L. de Lajonquière has dismissed, however wrongly. Almost nothing remains of it. It is a small rectangular room, whose bricks of the old model: 26cm×13cm×55cm, of poor execution, are mounted in three layers barely united by a bad blocking.

Parmentier, 1927

Rodney Charles LHuillier

Living in Asia for over a decade and now residing in beautiful Siem Reap. Rodney Charles L'Huillier has spent over seven years in Cambodia and is the author of Ancient Cambodia (2024) and Essential Siem Reap (2017, 2019). Contact via [email protected] - more..