Vrddha Ratnapura

Vṛddha Ratnapura was a Cham religious centre in the northern reaches of Champa, remembered by an inscription found at Đại Hữu. The surviving fragment records the establishment of a silver image of Ratnalokesvara, a form of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Other Buddhist sculptures from the site testify to a tradition of devotion in this coastal region. Together with the monastery at Đồng Dương farther south, it illustrates the place of Mahayana Buddhism in the religious life of the Cham courts.