Chenlaancient state, Indochina

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• arts ( in Southeast Asian arts: 1st to 10th century )

  ...what became, in the 9th century, the great Cambodian Khmer empire.) Between about 550 and 680 the kingdom retreated from the coast up the Mekong River into Laos, where it was called by the Chinese Chenla. This joint Funan-Chenla tradition produced some of the world’s most magnificent stone cult images. Though Buddhist icons are known, these images principally represent Hindu deities including...

  in Southeast Asian arts: Art of the northern capital: 4th to 11th century )

  ...of the capitals and altar pedestals are series of figures carved in relief in a sensuous style, which is nevertheless strictly conceptualized. This sophisticated work is reminiscent both of late Chenla art (see above Cambodia and Vietnam) and of Indonesian decoration, especially during the 11th-century return. Other figures are more coarsely emphatic in style, with the crudely defined cubic...

• history of Cambodia ( in Cambodia: Funan and Chenla )

  ...the decline of Funan in the 6th century and the founding of a centralized state in northwestern Cambodia about three centuries later. It has been common practice for modern writers to use “Chenla,” the contemporary Chinese term for the region, when referring to Cambodia during that time. Chinese sources suggest that there were at least two kingdoms in Cambodia, known as...