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Angkor Thom
Angkor Thom's walls were built to model a Hindu-Buddhist cosmos, not to keep an enemy out, and they still failed to stop the Ayutthaya army that finally emptied the city.
Hinduism
The world's oldest living tradition, and one that resists being a single thing.
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