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Masterpieces of the Đà Nẵng Museum of Cham Sculpture Vibrancy in Stone Other titles of interest: Royal Hue Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam Vu Hong Lien Photography Paisarn Piemmettawat 272 pages, paperback 551 colour illustrators With 9 maps & 19 plans ISBN 978 974 9863 95 4 Vibrancy The Roots of Thai Art Piriya Krairiksh Translated by Narisa Chakrabongse Photography Paisarn Piemmettawat 416 pages, hardback Over 540 colour illustrations in Stone With 32 maps and plans ISBN 978 616 7339 11 5 (English) Courtesy of EFEO, 1936. Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia A Traveler’s Guide through History, Ruins, and Landscapes William Chapman of Museum Sculpture Cham Nẵng of the Đà Masterpieces 312 pages, paperback 425 colour photographs With 76 maps & plans ISBN 978 616 7339 91 7 This catalogue assembles sumptuous photographs of the world’s leading collection of Buddhist Art Cham sculpture, along with the most recent insights of Vietnamese and international scholars. An Historical and Cultural Journey Gilles Béguin The Champa culture thrived in magnificent temples, sculpture, dance and music along the central 400 pages, hardback and southern coast of today’s Vietnam from the 5th to the 15th centuries. 680 colour illustrations With 22 maps & 78 plans A focused exploration here uncovers this brilliant yet almost lost culture to newcomers as well as By VVT, 2017. ISBN 978 974 9863 87 9 experts. To mark its centenary, the Đà Nẵng Museum of Cham Sculpture has been expanded Masterpieces Banteay Chhmar and refurbished to appropriately house the world’s leading collection of Cham art. Garrison-Temple of The Khmer Empire The museum staff, supported by the Southeast Asia art programme of the School of Oriental The museum, built a century ago with elegant Cham Peter D. Sharrock of the Đà Nẵng flourishes along a handsome facade favoured for Photography Paisarn Piemmettawat and African Studies (SOAS), London University, funded by the Alphawood Foundation, worked in French protectorate buildings, has survived being 200 pages, paperback concert with researchers from around the world to present these masterpieces. closed during two long wars. It now celebrates its 288 colour photographs Museum of centenary, refurbished in quiet grey stone under subtle With 25 plans & 8 maps ‘This volume both summarizes past research on Nagara Champa and ISBN 978 616 7339 20 7 lighting that brings out the vibrancy and joyfulness of introduces new insights into its past and its dynamic relations with surrounding peoples, the unique Cham sculptures. Mural Art both within Southeast Asia and beyond, particularly in the twelfth-thirteenth centuries. Cham Sculpture Studies on Paintings in Asia Edited by Cristophe Munier-Gailard It beautifully blends art history and history. I am very pleased to be a part of it.’ Peter D. Sharrock D. Peter 320 pages, hardback Professor John K. Whitmore Phương Kỳ Trần 460 colour photographs Văn ThắngVõ With 76 maps & plans Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan ISBN 978 616 7339 96 2 For a full catalogue, contact Trần Kỳ Phương RIVER BOOKS 396 Maharaj Road, Tatien, Bangkok 10200 Võ Văn Thắng Tel. 66 2 2246686, 2254963, 6221900 Fax. 66 2 2253861 288 pages ISBN: 978-6167339993 E-mail: [email protected] Peter D. Sharrock www.riverbooksbk.com 324 colour photographs With 9 maps & plans Printed and bound in Thailand ISBN 978 616 7339 99 3 9 786167 339993 Photographs by Paisarn Piemmettawat VIBRANCY IN STONE: Masterpieces of the Đà Nẵng Museum of Cham Sculpture Editors: Trần Kỳ Phương, Võ Văn Thắng, Peter D. Sharrock Photographs by Paisarn Piemmettawat With contributions by Pierre Baptiste, Lý Hòa Bình, Swati Chemburkar, Pia Conti, Parul Pandya Dhar, Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung, Nguyễn Hoàng Hương Duyên, Đỗ Trường Giang, Arlo Griffiths, John Guy, Kenneth R. Hall, Shivani Kapoor, Trần Kỳ Phương, Peter D. Sharrock, Anne-Valérie Schweyer, Amandine Lepoutre, William A. Southworth, Thành Phần, Võ Văn Thắng, Grace Chiao-Hui Tu, John K. Whitmore, Thierry Zéphir C O N T E N T S Preface 6 Foreword 7 Map of Cham sites in Vietnam 9 PART I : History and Culture of Champa 10 1. 100 years of the Đà Nẵng museum of Cham sculpture 12 Võ Văn Thắng 2. Champa Ports-of-Trade Networking on the Coastline c. 300-1500 CE 19 Kenneth R. Hall 3. Nagara Campa and the Vijaya turn 31 John K. Whitmore 4. Rethinking Cham temple architecture and sculpture 37 Trần Kỳ Phương 5. The Pāśupata sect in Ancient Cambodia and Champa 45 First published in Thailand in 2018 by Swati Chemburkar, Shivani Kapoor River Books Co., Ltd 6. The lives of temples in Champa 57 396 Maharaj Road, Tatien, Bangkok 10200 Thailand Parul Pandya Dhar Tel: (66) 2 225-4963, 2 225-0139, 2 622-1900 7. The sculpture of Champa: specificity & evolution 65 Fax: (66) 2 225-3861 Thierry Zéphir Email: [email protected] 8. Buddhism in Champa 71 www.riverbooksbk.com Anne-Valérie Schweyer Copyright collective work © River Books, 2018 9. Sinitic transfers into Cham art 79 Copyright texts © the authors, 2018 Grace Chiao-Hui Tu Copyright photographs © River Books, 2018 10. Śaiva ritual: liṅgakośa and mukhakośa in Champa 89 except where indicated otherwise. John Guy All rights reserved. No part of this book may 11. The inscriptions of Campā at the museum of Cham sculpture 97 be reproduced or transmitted in any form or Arlo Griffiths et al by any means, electrical or mechanical, including 12. Cham archaeology in Vietnam from 1975 101 photocopying, recording or by any information Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung storage or retrieval system without the written 13. Ports and trade in Amarāvatī 105 permission of the publisher. Đỗ Trường Giang Publisher: Narisa Chakrabongse 14. Cham-Khmer interactions 1113-1220 CE 111 Production Supervisor: Paisarn Piemmettawat Peter D. Sharrock Design: Ruetairat Nanta PART II 120 Masterpieces from the Museum 122 ISBN 978 616 7339 99 3 APPENDICES 272 Cover: Detail of the Dancing Shiva from Phong Lệ, Đà Nẵng (see page 210). Bibliography 274 Back cover: Polo players from Thạch Hãn, Quảng Trị (see page 206). Short author biographies 280 Printed and bound in Thailand by Sirivatana Interprint Public Co., Ltd. Index 282 Vibrancy in Stone Parmentier, H. 1909. Inventaire descriptif des Trần Kỳ Phương, Akiko, O. and Toshihiko, S. (eds.) Working Paper, No. 75, September 2006, www. monuments Cams de l’Annam: vol. I. Description 2005. Mỹ Sơn Site Museum, Vietnam. Tokyo: ari.nus.edu.sg/pub/wps/htm. THE PĀŚUPATA SECT IN ANCIENT des monuments. Publications de l’École française Product of Open Research Center Project, Trần Kỳ Phương. 2005. ‘Recherche sur le temple de d’Extrême-Orient. Paris: Leroux. Nihon University. Mỹ Sơn E1: Nouvelles données sur le réemploi CAMBODIA AND CHAMPA Shige-eda, Y., Momoki, Sh., and Higuchi, H. 1999. Trần Kỳ Phương and Shige-eda Yutaka. 1997. d’éléments de décor architectural dans un 5 Champa: Rekishi, Matsuson, Kenchiku [Champa: Champà Iseki: Umi ni mukatte tasu [Champa temple hindou du Champa’ in Trésors d’art du WATI HEMBURKAR AND HIVANI APOOR History, Descendant, Architecture]. Tokyo: Ruins: Standing facing toward the Ocean]. Tokyo: Vietnam: La sculpture du Champa, Ve – XVe siècles S C S K Hatsukoo Mekong. Rengo Shuppan. (eds. P. Baptiste and Th. Zéphir). Paris: Musée Shige-eda, Y. 2001. ‘Betonamu no Kenchiku’ [Viet Trần Kỳ Phương. 2015. ‘Researching on Champa Guimet, pp. 132-9. Nam architecture] in New History of World Art, temple-architecture: The dated inscriptions Trần Kỳ Phương. 2000. ‘The wedding of Sītā: a Vol. 12, Tonan Ajia (ed. T. Koezuka). Tokyo: newly unearthed and their relation to Cham theme from the Rāmāyaṇa represented on the he exquisitely carved Mỹ Sơn E1 temple Here the depictions of the ascetics are indeed Shogakukan, pp. 100-7. art history-In terms of the Pô Đàm and Hòa Tra Kieu pedestal’ in Narrative Sculpture and pedestal is remarkable for multiple so close that several activities can be aligned Shimoda, Itachi. 2010. Study on the Ancient Khmer Lai temple groups’. Fine Arts Research, Vietnam Literary Traditions in South and Southeast Asia carvings of ascetic figures performing with what we know of the oldest Śaiva sect of City ISANAPURA (Monument Inventory of University of Fine Arts, ISSN 1859-4697, No. 02 (ed. M. J. Klokke). Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, Tseveral functions. As in the art of neighbouring Pāśupatas, who left epigraphic traces on the Sambor Prei Kuk). Tokyo: Waseda University. (06), 06/2015, Part 1, pp. 14-23; No. 03 (07), pp. 51–8. th 09/2015, Part 2, pp. 15-22.] cultures, they are usually described rather Austroasiatic mainland from the turn of the 7 Southworth, W. 2004. ‘The coastal states of Yamagata, Mariko and Nguyen Kim Dung. 2014. Trần Kỳ Phương. 2011. ‘The Integral Relationship ‘Excavations at Hoan Chau, 1997-2000’ in The vaguely as ascetics, sages or ṛṣīs. They appear in century. The existence of an Indian Pāśupata sect Champa’ in Southeast Asia from Prehistory to such profusion that our eye skims over them as in ancient Cambodia was first commented on by History (eds Ian Glover and P. Bellwood). between Hindu Temple Sculpture and Ancient Citadel of Tra Kieu in Central Vietnam: London and New York: Routledge, pp. 209-33. Architecture: A New Approach to the Arts of The Site and the Pottery (ed. Yamagata Mariko). ornamental elements, intermingled with the floral Kamaleswar Bhattacharya in 1955: Champa’ in Cham of Vietnam: History, Society Kanazawa: Center for Cultural Resource Southworth, W. 2001. The origins of Campa and vegetative motifs that adorn the temples. ‘L’existence de la secte indienne des Pāçupata and Art (eds. Trần Kỳ Phương and Bruce M. Studies, Kanazawa University, pp. 20-66. in Central Vietnam: a preliminary view. PhD But Mỹ Sơn E1 is different. It clearly portrays Lockhart).
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