Hinduism in Cambodia

Cambodian Hindus
ហិណ្ឌូខ្មែរ
Thommanon temple in Siem Reap Province.
Religions
Hinduism
Majority:
Vaishnavism
Minority:
Shaivism
Languages
Sacred
Sanskrit
Majority
Khmer, Hindi, Punjabi, Cham and Tamil

Hinduism is a minority religion in Cambodia which is followed by about 1,000 to 15,000 individuals. Even being a small minority in the Buddhist majority nation it highly influences the vast culture and history of Cambodia with being a prominent religion under the Khmer Empire. Today most of the Cambodian Hindus are Indians in Cambodia. Cambodia had always been a Buddhist nation since its conception, but before its independence from French Indochina, it had a significant Hindu minority, and several hundred years before that, it had been the most dominant religion in Cambodia as well as Southeast Asia.

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