Yang Prong Cham Tower Dak Lak

To get to the Cham Yang Prong tower, visitors have to follow provincial road 1, Buon Ma Thuot city, to the West about 100 Km. Visitors will see the entrance to the Yang Prong Cham tower at the edge of the province, surrounded by the immense green of the tropical forest with ancient mausoleum trees, vines, and lichens. Yang Prong Cham Tower has a height of 9m, a square bottom with a length of 5m on each side, built of hard red fired bricks of various sizes but without any mortar or adhesive, each outer wall is 3 fake doors, one door. only open to the East, where the gods reside. Besides, on the fake doors, if visitors pay close attention, they will see that they are all decorated with delicate floral motifs, animals, summoned beasts or gods, even though the moss layer has been covered. edematous and gradually eroded over time. The top of the tower is as sharp as an onion or like a pen tower, which is quite different from the architecture of other Cham towers in Central Vietnam. In addition, the space inside the tower is only 5m3 wide and there are no worshiping statues or decorative motifs at all. During the war, the tower was mined by gold seekers, so it was damaged a lot. Therefore, many theories have been created, that: maybe the god statue was destroyed in the war that people couldn't find it or it didn't exist in the first place, but the god was only thought by everyone. think only in mind.

The name "Yang Prong" of the tower according to the ancient Cham people's concept is that it is a supreme god who governs the crops, so this is the tower worshiping the Great God of the ancient Cham people. The tower was built to worship the god Siva in the form of Mukhalinga, wishing for the growth of the race and happiness. Historians studying in the years 1904 to 1911 discovered on the stone door frame of the tower the ancient inscriptions of the Cham King Jaya Sinhavarman III who reigned at the end of the 13th century, the Tran Dynasty of the country. Dai Viet in the North. The physical vestiges around Yang Prong seem to prove that this was an ancient edifice of the Cham people in the Central Highlands. And affirming that about 700 years ago, the Central Highlands not only had indigenous people but also other ethnic groups living together and acted as an ambassador to promote unique architectural culture for an era that was once very royal.

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