Kalasan Temple is located 50 meters to the south of Road Yogya - Solo, precisely in Kalibening, Village Tirtomartani, Kalasan District, Yogyakarta Sleman regency.
The temple building has a 34 meters high, long and 45 meters wide is composed of three parts, namely the bottom or foot of the temple, the body of the temple and the roof of the temple. The bottom of the foot of the temple is a temple which stood on a stone base of a square with a size of 45 meters and a wide shelf. In this part of the staircase entrance decorated with makara at the end of the stairs. All around the foot of the temple are decorated tendrils coming out of a vase or urn.
Body temple square with some appearance of bulging out at the sides. In the southeast there is a booth that can be entered through the east side of the booth viewer. In the rooms, there are decorated with patterns singgasanabersandaran lion standing on the back of an elephant. On the outside of the body temple is decorated with niches of the god figure in standing position by holding a lotus flower.
At each entrance, from the north and south, there are decorations kala. At the crest there are decorative flower buds, leaves and tendrils. The top of the decorated tree and the painting gods and their occupants Khayangan clouds playing sounds such as drum carrier, fiddle, shellfish and camara. The roof of the temple there is a cube which is regarded as the summit of Mount Semeru there are several stupas surrounding.
Boundary between the roof and the body temple flower terdpat the form makhlukkayangan dwarf called gana. The roof of this temple was octagonal in shape and comprises two levels. On each side of the first level there is a statue depicting the Buddha and Buddhist people in the two described Yani Buddha. For example Yani Ratnasembawa Buddha residing in the south side. Bagiana top of the stupa possibility, but did not succeed because many of reconstructed stone is gone.
Around the temple there is a high stupa with approximately 4.60 and amounted to 52 pieces. These stupas can not be rebuilt karenasudah many missing stones. The specialty of this temple is on the surface of the rock layers are called Brajalepha.
Kalasan temple is the oldest Buddhist relics in the area of Yogyakarta and Central Java as an offering to the goddess Tara. Construction of a temple can be seen from the temple inscriptions of Saka 700 or AD 778-lettered lettered Penagari and Sanskrit which states that the establishment of this temple started from the proposals of the Masters of the King who then succeeded in persuading King Tejahpurna Parapkarana (Kariyana Panangkara), mustika Family Syailendra (Syailendra Wangsatikala) , to build a shrine for dewatara and a monastery for pendheta. Then the king presented to the village monasteries Kalasan year 778 AD and is considered as the year of manufacture Kalasan temple.
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