Trần Kỳ Phương, Võ Văn Thắng, Peter D. Sharrock (eds), Paisarn Piemmettawat (photographs). Vibrancy in Stone: Masterpieces of the Đà Nẵng Museum of Cham Sculpture. Bangkok: River Books. 288 pp. + 324 photographs. ISBN 978 616 7339 99 3. 2,000.00 ฿ (within Thailand). [official site] [official launch] [co-editor Peter D. Sharrock: academia.edu]
Description
The collection of the Đà Nẵng Museum of Cham Sculpture, mostly in sandstone, was gathered from the Champa monuments that were collapsed covered by dense tropical flora for centuries. Only in the late 19th century did the ruined mounds began to attract collectors of antiquities and researchers of cultural heritage. The large undertaking of surveying, recording, clearing and scientifically excavating them took place in the first thirty years of the 20th century, when sculptures from this hitherto little studied culture began to be transferred to the Đà Nẵng Museum of Cham Sculpture, then referred to as the ‘Musée Čam’ or ‘Musée de Tourane’. […] The Champa theme no longer appears only in French-language journals, as in the early 20th century, but now attracts a growing number of the scholars from Europe, Asia and North America to work alongside Vietnamese experts. The Đà Nẵng Museum of Cham Sculpture is proud of its collaboration with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University London, to create a new catalogue of 100 selected objects from the museum’s current collection.
Contents
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
Swati Chemburkar, Shivani Kapoor
6. The lives of temples in Champa … 57
Parul Pandya Dhar
7. The sculpture of Champa: specificity & evolution … 65
Thierry Zéphir
8. Buddhism in Champa … 71
Anne-Valérie Schweyer
9. Sinitic transfers into Cham art … 79
Grace Chiao-Hui Tu
10. Śaiva ritual: liṅgakośa and mukhakośa in Champa … 89
John Guy
11. The inscriptions of Campā at the museum of Cham sculpture … 97
Arlo Griffiths et al
12. Cham archaeology in Vietnam from 1975 … 101
Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung
13. Ports and trade in Amarāvatī … 105
Đỗ Trường Giang
14. Cham-Khmer interactions 1113-1220 CE … 111
Peter D. Sharrock
PART II … 120
Masterpieces from the Museum … 122
APPENDICES … 272
Bibliography … 274
Short author biographies … 280