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Kun Lbokator : Communities’ Living Heritage and Safeguarding Efforts
  • Manage No DI00001357
    Country Cambodia
    Author San Phalla (Deputy Director General, Directorate General of Techniques for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, Cambodia)
    Published Year 2023
    Language English
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Description Before the innovation of modern weapons, martial arts played an essential role in most societies around the world as means of self-defense, protecting themselves from enemy aggression or waging war to enlarge their territories. In Cambodia, although there is no evidence to confirm exactly when martial arts came to prevalence, through carvings at ancient temples, we believe that martial arts existed at least since the Angkor period. People ranging from ordinary citizens to soldiers to kings trained in martial arts for self-defense and protecting their country. It is for this reason that martial arts have been transmitted down the generations and still exist today. The Cambodian martial arts that we see today are a living heritage that has been developed for over a thousand years.

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