Hell as determined by Yama. All this is due to the power of the Phallanisang who built the temple and performed the ritual as mentioned.
ยท Story 3: The story of the sand-sand prince. There was a boy who used to go to the sand mountain every day, getting covered in sand every day, until he was called "the sand-sand prince". One day, God Indra opened his eyes and saw the sand-sand prince filling the mountain like that, so he sent a goddess to come down to be the wife of the sand-sand prince. At first, the sand-sand prince refused to take her, saying that he was too young to support the goddess. So the princess went to the parents of the lazy sand king, saying that she was a goddess who had been sent by Indra to be the wife of the lazy sand king. When the parents saw the goddess, they were pleased because she had a beautiful appearance, so they persuaded the lazy sand king to accept her. Since the lazy sand king had taken the goddess as his wife, his body had become very beautiful and radiant, much better than before, because the goddess had helped to take care of it and was very suitable for his wife. It became famous that the lazy sand king had taken the goddess as a good wife. At that time, the officials and generals also went to see it, as they had heard. At that time, the king of the land died, and there was no one to inherit the kingdom of the land. They thought that the king of the sand was the rightful king of the land. After that, they made a fortune-telling ceremony to find someone who was worthy to be the king of the land. The fortune-telling went to the king of the sand, and they invited him to reign with the goddess. This result, which is a divine vision, he said was achieved because of the sand mountain. When a story was told about the origin of the construction of the temple, the Khmer people knew these things and were filled with faith and joy, and they built the temple as a tradition until the present day.
ยท Blessing the Mountain
The abbot recites the Dhamma, prays, and then takes a piece of white cloth about one and a half meters long and wraps it around the pagoda, which according to the locals is called โBlessing the Mountain.โ On that occasion, the monks recite the Dhamma and perform the Parittha at the Dhamma Hall, continuing the thread to reach all the mountains. The mountain that has been raised as a pagoda, anyone who goes to step on it or dissolves it before it is destroyed will be punished.
ยท Note:
From examining and analyzing all the religious activities that were carried out during the sand hill festival or other religious activities, we can conclude that it is the Brahman religious activities that are left in the Khmer culture because the Khmer have been influenced by Brahmanism for hundreds of years. Therefore, even though the Khmer have converted to Buddhism, the dances and traditions of Brahmanism continue to remain in the mindset and religious activities. Because most Cambodians are Buddhists, in order to preserve the traditions of Brahmanism, writers have invented many stories by linking the plot to the Buddha or Buddhism. This is the art of repackaging old or obsolete goods to entice buyers to continue buying them. An easy way to spot Brahmanism disguised as Buddhism is to look for any intervention by deities in the lives of ordinary people, or to look for stories in which the Buddha appears to be admiring, flying to heaven, descending to hell, or reliving his birth in thousands of lives.
Theravada Buddhism values โโreality, reflection, and experimentation; They reject all superstitions that are not real or humanistic. The Buddha never claimed to be a deity who could turn around and come down to save people or bless them, but later generations have always invented stories to glorify the Buddha. Doing so is a way of boasting against the Brahmans and other religious people who boast that their deity can create and destroy the earth and the sky and then recreate it at will, or that he is the true God or the savior who created the earth and everything on it, or that he can fly and walk in the air, touch the ground, die and come back to life, descend to hell or ascend to heaven at will, or that he will soon return to save people who believe in him.
The Buddha advised his disciples to consider his teachings or theories and if they were right, they should put them into practice. If they were wrong or out of date or scientific, they should discard them. The Buddha advised his disciples, as well as future generations, not to believe anyone just because they boasted of being a scholar, teacher, or monk. The Buddha taught people to use their wisdom (Panha) to consider, compare, and test the truth of a personโs words, information, scriptures, or practices before deciding whether to believe them or not. The Buddha passed away.
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