Mendut Temple

Mendut temple is a Buddhist temple. This temple is located in the village Mendut, Mungkid district, Magelang regency, Central Java, a few kilometers from Borobudur temple.

Mendut founded during the reign of King Indra Syailendra dynasty. In the tablets that bertarikh Karangtengah 824 AD, mentioned that the king Indra has built a shrine called wenuwana which means bamboo forests. By a Dutch archaeologist named J.G. de Casparis, this word is connected with Mendut.

Actual temple building materials are brick covered with natural stone. The building is located on a basement high, so that it looks more elegant and sturdy. Up stairs and the entrance facing southwest. In the basement there is the hallway that surrounds the body of the temple. The roof is three-tiered and decorated with small stupas. The number of small stupas built now is 48 units.

Decoration found on the form of ornaments Mendut intermittent. Decorated with carvings of celestial beings and gods gandarwa apsara or an angel, two-tailed macaques and a lone eagle.

On both sides there are stairs Pancatantra reliefs and Jataka stories.
Hariti.

Boddhisatwa temple reliefs decorated the walls of which Awalokiteswara, Maitreya, Wajrapāṇi and Manjusri. On the wall of the temple there is a relief Kalpataru body, two angels, Hariti (a yaksi who repent and then follow the Buddha) and Āţawaka.
Buddha in a position dharmacakramudra.

Inside the temple there are statues of Buddha holding a large amount to three: the Dhyani Buddha Wairocana with an attitude of hands (mudras) dharmacakramudra. In front there is a relief in the form of statues of Buddha flanked by a pair of wheels and a deer, a symbol of the Buddha. On the left side there are statues Awalokiteswara (Padmapāņi) and the right statue Wajrapāņi. Now in front of Buddha statues, incense and incense placed baskets to donate. The visitors could light a incense and prayed here.

Prambanan

Candi Rara Jonggrang or Lara Jonggrang located in the Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia. This temple is located on the island of Java, approximately 20 km east of Yogyakarta, 40 km west of Surakarta and 120 km south of Semarang, right on the border between the provinces of Central Java and Yogyakarta. Rara Jonggrang Candi Prambanan is located in the village whose territory is divided between the districts of Sleman and Klaten.

This temple was built about the year 850 AD by one of these two, namely: Rakai Pikatan, a second king of Mataram dynasty I or balitung Maha Sambu, during the Sanjaya dynasty. Not long after construction, the temple was abandoned and deteriorating.

In the year 1733, this temple was found by the CA. Lons a Dutch nationality, later in the year 1855 Jan Willem IJzerman began to clean and move some rocks and soil from the temple. few moments later Isaac Groneman conduct large-scale demolition and temple stones are piled up at random along the River Opak. In the years 1902-1903, Theodoor van Erp maintain collapse-prone parts. In the years 1918-1926, followed by the Department of Antiquities (Oudheidkundige Dienst) under PJ Perquin in a more methodical and systematic, as known to those of his predecessors did the removal and dismantling of the thousands of rock without thinking of the restoration effort kembali.Pada 1926 De Haan continued until his death in 1930. In the year 1931 was replaced by Ir. V.R. van Romondt until the year 1942 and later handed over leadership of the renovation to the son of Indonesia and was continued until the year 1993.

Many parts of the temple which was renovated, using new stones, because many of the original stones were stolen or reused elsewhere. A temple will only be restored if at least 75% of the original stone is still there. Therefore, many small temples are not rebuilt and only looked foundation course.

Now, this temple is a protected site by UNESCO since 1991. Among other things, this means that the complex is shielded and has a special status, eg also in a situation of war.

Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple in Southeast Asia, the main building is 47m high.

This temple complex consists of eight main shrine or temple and more than 250 small temples.

Three main temples called Trisakti and dedicated to the hyang Trimurti: Shiva Batara the Destroyer, Vishnu the Preserver and Batara Batara Brahma the Creator.

Shiva temple in the middle, contains four rooms, one room in each cardinal direction. While the first one contains a statue of Shiva Batara three meters tall, the other three statues contain a smaller size, the statue of Durga, Shiva Batara sakti or wife, Agastya, teacher, and Ganesha, his son.

Durga is also known as Rara or Lara / Loro Jongrang (slender virgin) by the local population. For more details see the article Jonggrang Loro.

Two other temples dedicated to Vishnu Batara, facing to the north and one dedicated to Brahma Batara, facing to the south. In addition there are several other small temples dedicated to her calf Nandini, vehicle Batara Shiva, the Swan, vehicle Batara Brahma, and the Garuda Wisnu Batara vehicle.

Then twenty-reliefs around the edge of the temple depict the Ramayana epic. The version described here is different from Old Javanese Ramayana Kakawin, but similar to the Ramayana story is revealed through oral traditions. Besides the temple complex is surrounded by more than 250 temples vary in size and called perwara. In the Prambanan temple complex there is also a museum that stores the objects of history, including the god Shiva Linga stone, a symbol kesuburun.

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Borobudur

Borobudur was built under the supervisions of the Sailendra dynasty that controlled Central Java in the 8th and 9th centuries and came to dominate Srivijaya as well, and it was probably constructed between 760 and 830 A.D. The basic shape of Borobudur is a stepped pyramid on a quadrangular plan with a stupa at the top. It was built on a natural hill so it has no interior space. There is no roof an all of its galleries and terraces are open to the sky.

The lowest level has a square floor plan, each side is 370 feet long. It is the Sphere of Desire where the human spirit is chained to greed. The second level 23 feet from the outer edge, providing a wide space around the monument. It is the Sphere of Form where the human spirit is free from greed, but is not able to transcend the material world.

The upper part is the Sphere of Formlessness, where the liberated human spirit has left earthly considerations. The three levels of Borobudur may represent the Buddhist three-part division of the universe.