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The Cham adopted Indian Buddhist and Hindu  religious systems, languages, and the practice of building stone temples and monasteries. The lion,  which is ubiquitous on Indian monuments, was  also incorporated as a protector at Cham sacred  sites. In Champa, however, the roaring and rearing  lion imagery is semihuman and distinctively  aggressive and extroverted. This powerful figure rearing in a combative pose was formerly in the  renowned Pan-Asian Collection of Southeast Asian art assembled during the 1960s and 1970s by one  major collector, Christian Humann of the renowned  Rothschild banking family.</div>
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