When Angkor Wat was being raided by art thieves operating out of Thailand, they knocked off heads off of buddha not to be disrepsectful per se, but because they

When Angkor Wat was being raided by art thieves operating out of Thailand, they knocked off heads off of buddha not to be disrepsectful per se, but because they wanted to loot and sell those heads on the black market. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat#History