TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Art Style Iconography and the Cultural Adjustment to
Khmer Prasadas in Champasak District, Lao PDR
AU - Thongphun, Paijit AU - Wongpongkham, Niyom AU - Salee, Banyat 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 13
IS  - 4
SP  - 862
EP  - 876
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2018.862.876
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2018.862.876
KW  - The art style
KW  -iconography
KW  -the cultural adjustment
KW  -Brahmanism
KW  -villagers religion
KW  -ancestral ghost
AB  - This research is a qualitative research that studies the art style, iconography and cultural adjustments
to Khmer Prasadas in Champasak District, Lao PDR. The tools used within this study was primary surveys,
structured and non-structured interviews, participatory and non-participatory observation. The target group
consists of the experts, the practitioners and related parties. The result from the study shows that, the history
of Vat Phu consist of a story called Khatthanam, the legend of Phraya Kumpatha, the oral storytelling human
sacrifice and the legend of Thao Bachiang and Nang Malong. According to its historical background it received
the influence from Cham art style and could be found in the stone inscription, since, the Buddhist year of 998
until the 15th Buddhis era where there were renovations and additional constructions in the art form towards
the end of Kriang era and the beginning of Pa Puan era. The cultural adjustments consist of stories of Shivaism
and Vishnuism, the second-tier Gods and animals. The adjustments found in the Khmer Prasadas were plants,
animals and people and Gods accompanying the story. The physical adjustments consist of the structural
changes of the Prasadas in the blueprint of the Khmer Prasadas, the form and the architectural structure were
all the changes according to the Buddhist beliefs and the cultural adjustments that include the beliefs,
ceremonies and the traditions within the communities that relates to Brahmanism and spirituality as well as the
ancestral ghost which goes in line with the word “villagers religion”.
ER  -