As a professional who worked in Cambodia, I retain my interest in this country and it's people. This morning it was interesting to view a program on Angkor Wat as telecast by CNN. Bhudhism is the state religion of the country. As Bhudhism is derived from Hinduism, many traditions of ancient Hindu practices such as bachelor young men seeking food by visiting households in the area and presenting them to priests in the temple, who used to share the food with their disciples are being followed to this day all over the country. It is believed that the country was inhabited by kings from Chola or Pallava dynasty in Tamilnadu and that they established the Khmer dynasty in the country.
After viewing the above mentioned program, I had the pleasure of viewing another interesting program on TravelXP, another favourire TV Channel of mine. This program reminded of my stay in Shaba, where I worked as a teacher, and my 4 miles walks to Paro post office to collect my letters after lunch by which time the classes would be over. I fondly remember my colleague and good friend Nagarajan (from Nagapattinam), who used to accompany me to Paro and back. He was a Brahmin like me. State religion Bhutan is also Bhudhism.
According to historic evidences, these two countries and many others including present day Afghanistan in West Asia to Indonesia in South East Asia were parts of ancient India known as 'Bhaarath versh'.
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