Jayavarman VIII.

Jayavarman VIII was a Khmer king in the kingdom of Angkor from 1243 to 1295 .

Life

During his reign he had to fend off several invasions by the Thai of the Sukhothai Empire .

Towards the end of his reign, the threat from the Mongols became a major concern of his. In 1280 the ruler of Annam called the Mongolian ( Yuan Dynasty ) Emperor of China , Kublai Khan , for help against the Khmer. This sent an army that could be repulsed just before Angkor, but Jayavarman VIII agreed to pay tribute.

During his reign there was a violent Hindu reaction to Buddhism , as it had been propagated especially by King Jayavarman VII . This took on the dimensions of an iconoclasm - in many cases one sees scraped-off Buddhist representations in the temples of Angkor, for example in Ta Prohm or Preah Palilay . A Buddha statue that had been placed in the Bayon was found destroyed in a well in the 1930s. In the bayon it had been replaced by a statue of Harihara . Construction activities of importance are not known from Jayavarman's VIII reign.

1295 thanked Jayavarman VIII in favor of his successor Indravarman III. from.

predecessor	Office	successor
unknown	King of the Khmer 1243–1295	Indravarman III.