Kalasan
| Kalasan Temple Candi Kalasan ꦕꦟ꧀ꦝꦶꦏꦭꦱꦤ꧀ | |
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Kalasan (
History
According to the
In addition, a
Despite being renovated and partially rebuilt during the Dutch colonial era, the temple is currently in poor condition. Compared to other temples nearby such as Prambanan,
Architecture
The temple stands on a square 14.20 meters sub-basement. The temple plan is cross-shaped, and designed as a twelve-cornered polygon. Each of the four cardinal points has stairs and gates adorned with Kala-Makara and rooms measuring 3,5 square meters. No statue is to be found in the smaller rooms facing north, west, and south; but the lotus pedestals suggest that the rooms once contained statues of
The roof of the temple is designed in three sections. The lower one is still according to the polygonal shape of the body and contains small niches with statues of bodhisattvas seated on a lotus. Each of these niches is crowned with stupas. The middle part of the roof is
The temple is facing east, with the eastern room also serving as access to the main central room. In the larger main room, there is a lotus pedestal and throne carved with makara, lion, and elephant figures, similar to the Buddha Vairocana throne found in Mendut temple. According to the Kalasan inscription, the temple once houses the large (probably reaching 4 meters tall) statue of the Boddhisattvadevi Tara. By the design of the throne, most probably the statue of the goddess was in a seated position and made from bronze.[4] Now the statue is missing, probably the same fate as the bronze Buddha statue in Sewu temple, being looted for scrap metal over centuries.
On the outer wall of the temple found traces of plaster called vajralepa (lit: diamond plaster). The same substance was also found in the nearby
The temple is located on the archaeologically rich Prambanan plain. Just a few hundred meters northeast of Kalasan temple is located Sari temple. Candi Sari was most probably the monastery mentioned in the Kalasan inscription. Further east lies the Prambanan complex, Sewu temple, and
In popular culture
- In December 2016, the fourth expansion of the popular real-time strategy PC game from Microsoft, Age of Empires II titled Rise of the Rajas featured Candi Kalasan as the Wonder of the Malay civilization featured in-game.[5]
See also
- Borobudur
- Buddhism in Indonesia
- Candi of Indonesia
- Candi Mendut
- Candi Plaosan
- Candi Sari
- Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism
- Kalasan inscription (778)
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.
- ISBN 979-501-098-0.
- ISBN 979-501-098-0.
- ^ Drs. R. Soekmono (1988) [1973]. Pengantar Sejarah Kebudayaan Indonesia 2 (2nd ed.). Yogyakarta: Penerbit Kanisius. p. 43.
- ^ "Malay | Forgotten Empires". www.forgottenempires.net. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
References
- Holt, Claire. (1967) Art in Indonesia : continuities and change. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-0188-7
- Roy E. Jordaan (1998), The Tārā temple of Kalasan in Central Java, PERSEE, retrieved 15 January 2014
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