Your Prohm ( Rājavihara ) is a temple on the site of Angkor to the Kampuchea, built on the model of the Bayon at the end of the 12th century. Located one kilometer at the east of Angkor Thom, on the southern edge of the Eastern Baray, it was built by the Jayavarman VII like monastery and Buddhist university Mahāyāna under the name Rājavihara (the monastery of the king). Like the other Khmer temples, it is included in an enclosure of great dimension (1 km out of 700 m) whose doors (at each cardinal point) are decorated of a tower to the four faces of a style close to those of Angkor Thom. A fifth relates more discrete to the northern wall - perhaps was used it as " carry service".

Inside this enclosure many monastic buildings were to be whose only a list of stage close to the entry remains today Is second enclosure. This one, surrounded by ditches of approximately 25 m broad, delimits the square space of approximately 250 m on side of the temple itself.

Jayavarman VII is the only Khmer king to have built two large temples. The first of both, Your Prohm was devoted in 1186 and was dedicated to the family of the king: the principal idol (Prajnāpāramitā, the personification of wisdom) took model on his/her mother, while the two satellite temples of the third enclosure were devoted one to its guru (northern) and the other with his/her older brother (southern).

It will build then the Preah Khan in the honor of his father, identified with Lokeśvara. Large builder it also equips Angkor with many buildings of less size of which the Banteay Kdei and built in all the Khmer Empire of the time.

The entrelac of the roots and the walls, the alternation of the trees and the stones does of it one of the sites most photographed of Angkor. With the difference of the majority of the other monuments of Angkor, Your Prohm was left in a state close to its Re-discovery at the beginning of the 20th century. It was selected for this purpose by the French École of the Far East like " concession with the general taste for the pittoresque" (Glaize). Nevertheless much of work was necessary to stabilize the ruins and to allow the access, in order to maintain " this state of negligence connects " (Freeman and Jacques).