mukhalinga

Updated: May 17, 2025

The Brahmanic hierarchy began to fail about the fourteenth century and was supplanted by Siamese Buddhism. Before that time the state religion of both Champa and Camboja was the worship of Śiva, especially in the form called Mukhalinga. Mahayanist Buddhism, tending to identify Buddha with Śiva, also existed but enjoyed less of the royal patronage.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1