My Son

My Son is a bunch of relinquished and halfway destroyed Hindu sanctuaries built between the fourth and the fourteenth century AD by the lords of Champa Chiem Thanh in Vietnamese. The sanctuaries are committed to the love of the god Shiva, known under different nearby names, the most essential of which is Bhadresha. My Son is situated close to the town of Duy Phu, in the regulatory area of Duy Xuyen in Quang Nam Province in Central Vietnam, 69 km southwest of Da Nang, and around 10 km from the notable town of Tra Kieu. The sanctuaries are in a valley about two kilometers wide that is encompassed by two mountain ranges.

From the fourth to the fourteenth century AD, the valley at My Son was a site of religious service for rulers of the decision administrations of Champa, and in addition an entombment put for Cham sovereignty and national saints. It was nearly connected with the adjacent Cham urban areas of Indrapura Dong Duong and Simhapura Tra Kieu. At one time, the site incorporated more than 70 sanctuaries and in addition ious stele bearing verifiably imperative engravings in Sanskrit and Cham. My Son is maybe the longest possessed archeological site in Indochina, however an expansive dominant part of its engineering was crushed by US mass shelling amid a solitary seven day stretch of the Vietnam War.

The ‘My Son’ sanctuary complex is respected one of the premier Hindu sanctuary buildings in Southeast Asia and is the chief legacy site of this nature in Vietnam. It is frequently contrasted and other verifiable sanctuary edifices in Southeast Asia, for example, Borobudur of Java in Indonesia, Angkor Wat of Cambodia, Bagan of Myanmar and Ayutthaya of Thailand. Starting at 1999, My Son has been perceived by UNESCO as a world legacy site.