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The Sailendra of Java (Lord of Mountain) was a descendant of Khmer Phnom Kingdom (Funan=Lord of Mountain).

650 AD to 850 AD


After escaped from the Kampu (Chenla) invasions, some of the royal family of Phnom (Funan) was settled in Java, built and founded a new dynasty of the Sailendra of Java. The  Sailendra with Mahayana Buddhism was powerful and famous in Java. When they converted themselves from Hinduism to Buddhism, they wanted to build a Buddhism Temple in their Phnom Kingdom (Funan) but was interrupted by the Kampu (Chenla). In 788,  They took a revenge of the Kampu, they sailed from Java to invade the Kampu (Chenla) and beheaded King of Kampu. They took some royal family of Kampu to Java and ruled the Kampu for 14 years. In 802, a Kampu Prince escaped from the Sailendra of Java and came to Kampuchea reunited all Khmer of Phnom (Funan) and Khmer of Kampuchea (Chenla) and formed a Khmer Empire. Prince declared himself as God King at the Kulen Mountain, he became a Khmer God King Jayvarman II worshiped his God Shiva on Kulen Mountain where his personal priest can find the holy water from the sacred fall on the mountain to pour offering to His God Shiva.


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