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The King who actually built Angkor Wat was called Suryavarman II.Suryavarman II, son of Ksitindradity and Narendralakshmi, Khmer king renowned as a religious reformer and temple builder. Under his rule the temple of Angkor Wat, the world's largest.Suryavarman was formally crowned in 1113, with his guru, the powerful priest Divakarapandita, presidingThe king was a religious reformer who blended the mystical cults of Vishnu and Shiva, supreme Hindu deities, and promulgated Vaisnavism as the official religion, rather than Buddhism, which had briefly flourished under his predecessors.One can still find traces of Buddhism within the art of Angkor Wat however.Angkor Wat, dedicated to Vishnu, was begun in the early years of Suryavarman's reign and was not finished until after his death.