Exhibition: Indian cultural vestiges in Vietnam

[Srinivas]

Exhibition: Indian cultural vestiges in Vietnam

A photography exhibition on “Indian cultural vestiges in Vietnam” has opened at the headquarters of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in New Delhi on February 8.
Vietnamese Ambassador to India Nguyen Thanh Tan and representatives from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and ICCR attended the opening ceremony.
The 7-day exhibition showcases 50 photographs of temples, towers and idols under Champa dynasty.
The photos were taken by Geetesh Sharma, President of the India-Vietnam Solidarity Committee in the state of West Bengal, and Kusum Jain, General Secretary of the committee. They are also the organizers of the exhibition.
During the last 40 years, Sharma has arranged a number of activities to support Vietnamese people’s past struggles for independence as well as the country’s current development.
The exhibition aims to boost the younger generation’s understanding of the two countries’ cultural similarity, and tighten Vietnam and India’s relations, he said.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of central Da Nang city Van Huu Chien has sent a letter to show his appreciation and congratulate Sharma on the exhibition, which he says contributes to the traditional ties between Vietnam and India.
Chien said he hopes Sharma will continue his effort to intensify relations between Da Nang city and Indian partners.


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[Rechoice]

Statue of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, crimson and gilded wood, Restored Lê dynasty, autumn of Bính Thân year (1656).

Bái Đính Temple in Ninh Bình Province.

 

[KRAIT]

Thanks buddy for these pics. Hope cultural and economic ties increase between our nations.

 

[Rechoice]

The Republic of India and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam enjoy strong bilateral relations.
Cultural and economic links between India and Vietnam date back to 2nd century. The Indic Chăm Pa kingdom had some influences on Vietnamese art and architecture .

In contemporary era, relations between India and Vietnam have been governed by several areas of shared political interests. India strongly condemned U.S. action during the Vietnam War and was also one of the few non-communist countries to assist Vietnam during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.

In 1992, India and Vietnam established extensive economic ties, including oil exploration, agriculture and manufacturing. The relations between the two countries, especially defence ties, benefited extensively from India's Look East policy. Bilateral military cooperation includes sale of military equipment, sharing of intelligence, joint naval exercises and training in counterinsurgency and jungle warfare.[4]

 

[notsuperstitious]

I've visited Ho Chi Minh a couple of times and I was really surprised to find the cultural ties. There was a small museum I just happened to walk into and there were so many artefacts there with sanskrit names.

 

[Viet]

Actually ancient Champa had cultural link to India. Some more pics of Hindu Cham heritage sites:

Cham tower in Phan Rang – Vietnam

Thap Cham" in Phan Rang Vietnam

Po Klong Garai, 9km west of Phan Rang

Cham temples in Phan Rang

Cham people celebrate – Kate festival in Binh Thuan

 

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Viet Thuong (Champa or Chiem) Culture with influences of Indian culture motives.

 

[RealAmerican]

The Cham people occupied today's South Vietnam before Vietnamese conquered them. Cham people, like Cambodian and Thai, received a lot of Indian influence. Vietnamese, on the other hand, has more Chinese influence. Its because of Vietnam's conquest of Cham territory that created a vestige of India in today's Vietnam.

 

[Ayush]

long live our friendship.

 

[A.Rafay]

Everytime I see Vietnam, it sound like this in my mind 'Viet fking Nam'! No offense.

On topic: Nice exhibition! Vietnam seems to have a mixture of Chinese and south Asian culture!

 

[Rechoice]

Yeah, just try everything to get rid of China culture...But you may need to change your blood. LOL

Viet and Hua are different in ADN, bloods. It was composed of Malayo-Polynesian people and was highly influenced by Indian and Indonesian traders and religious people. For langualistic Vietnamese belong to part of the Austroasiatic language family of which it has, by far, the most speakers (several times that of the other Austroasiatic languages combined).

The Cham people occupied today's South Vietnam before Vietnamese conquered them. Cham people, like Cambodian and Thai, received a lot of Indian influence. Vietnamese, on the other hand, has more Chinese influence. Its because of Vietnam's conquest of Cham territory that created a vestige of India in today's Vietnam.

At begining Vietthuong (Champa) attacked continously on Vietnam to unitify the country first, at the end Vietnam successed it. Tt was desired by Vietthuong people.

 

[AViet]

Thank to living under the Chinese influence for 1000 years, overwhelming majority of Vietnamese are very close to Chinese culture in every way of life: the way of thinking and living, country-wide civil examination, family workship, architecture, language etc. The first Vietnamese (Vietnam is spelled as Yue-Nan in Chinese) is also likely come from China territory (Yue state, north of Fujian province, called Nước Việt in Vietnamese) after this state was annexed by Chu state (called Nước Sở in Vietnamese) during Spring-Autumn period, according to Dao Duy Anh, a famous historian. Even the legendary kings of Hung Vương (very first king of Vietnamese) were likely the descendant of kings of Chu state, according to him, after Chu state was defeated by Qin Shi Huangdi in around 200BC.

The trace of India culture can be found only in pockets of population, mostly of Cham descent in the Central and South of Vietnam. The Hindu Cham is called "Chăm Bà La" (translated from Cham and Brahmin), but I guess that Hindu in Cham population is quite different from its origin, i.e. there is no caste system for Chăm Bà La people.

As estimated, the Chăm Bà La population is around tens of thousand, very small compared to the overall population. More and more people of Cham descent now adopt mainstream Kinh ethnic culture, like name and education.

 

[Rechoice]

Thank to living under the Chinese influence for 1000 years, overwhelming majority of Vietnamese are very close to Chinese culture in every way of life: the way of thinking and living, country-wide civil examination, family workship, architecture, language etc. The first Vietnamese (Vietnam is spelled as Yue-Nan in Chinese) is also likely come from China territory (Yue state, north of Fujian province, called Nước Việt in Vietnamese) after this state was annexed by Chu state (called Nước Sở in Vietnamese) during Spring-Autumn period, according to Dao Duy Anh, a famous historian. Even the legendary kings of Hung Vương (very first king of Vietnamese) were likely the descendant of kings of Chu state, according to him, after Chu state was defeated by Qin Shi Huangdi in around 200BC.

The trace of India culture can be found only in pockets of population, mostly of Cham descent in the Central and South of Vietnam. The Hindu Cham is called "Chăm Bà La" (translated from Cham and Brahmin), but I guess that Hindu in Cham population is quite different from its origin, i.e. there is no caste system for Chăm Bà La people.

As estimated, the Chăm Bà La population is around tens of thousand, very small compared to the overall population. More and more people of Cham descent now adopt mainstream Kinh ethnic culture, like name and education.

Aviet reminder me to word " A Hoàn " in Hán-Việt dictionary.

 

[AViet]

What do you want to say? Personal attack, or just a stupid thought.

 

[scorpionx]

For thousand of years we have been friends and in the present geo political situation the bond will be much much stronger