Monk looks to an entrance lintel

Monk looks to an entrance lintel

The buddhist monk shows respect to the entrance lintel before he entered the temple complex in Banteay Srei inside the Angkor park.
The lintels on the towers contain several depictions like the abduction of Sita by Ravana and a fight between Vali and Sugrava from the monkey Kingdom, a storey from the epic Ramayana. The foundation stele dated 968 mentions that the most import linga named Sri Tribhuvanamahesvara was enshrined in the central tower. The other two towers were dedicated to Shiva and Vishnu.

(The diapositive was scanned by NikonCoolscan 5000ED, original Kodachrome 50 ASA, captured April 1996.)