Integration of and changes to Viet-Cham culture through religious beliefs around Cham Towers

Abstract

When living in the old land of the Cham people in Central Vietnam, the Viet people had lived harmoniously with the Cham Tower – a religious architectural work of that ethnic group.  Their behavior developed along different lines, such as the building of places of worship around Cham towers but separate from them; the building of pagodas next to the towers with roads leading to the towers so that after visiting the pagodas people can go to visit the towers; the use of the tower’s objects of worship as objects of worship in the pagodas and the use of the old towers of the Cham as places of worship