King Jayavarman VII were too afraid of him to oppose him on the issue of making Mahayana Buddhism the state religion . At the same time , the king depicted himself through his portrait statues as an ascetic deep in meditation . We learn from his inscriptions also that the man suffered from the sicknesses of his subjects more than from his own . To put it another way , he felt spiritual pain whenever he saw his subjects ' bodies inflicted by pain (Mus . He...
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