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Candi Sari (Indonesian: Candi Sari also known as

Candi Bendah) is an 8th-century Buddhist temple[1]:90
located at Dusun Bendan, Tirtomartani village, Kalasan,
Sleman regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is located
about 130 metres north east from Kalasan temple. The
temple was a two-story building with wooden beams,
floors, stairs completed with windows and doors; all
from organic materials which now are decayed and
gone. It is suggested that the original function of this
building was a vihara (Buddhist monastery), a dwelling
place for monks.[2] The temple's name Sari or Sar
translates as "to sleep" in Javanese, which also confirms
Candi Sari, front view
the habitation nature of the building.

Contents
1 History
2 Architecture
3 See also
4 References
5 External links Candi Sari, from the rear

History
Historians suggested that the temple was built around the same time
as the Kalasan temple. The Kalasan inscription dated 778 AD, in
Pranagari script written in Sanskrit, mentions that the temple was
erected by the will of Guru Sang Raja Sailendravamatilaka (the
Jewel of the Shailendra dynasty) who succeeded in persuading
Maharaja Tejapurnapana Panangkaran (in other parts of the inside Candi Sari
inscription also called as Kariyana Panangkaran) to construct a holy
building for the boddhisattva Tara and also build a vihara
(monastery) for Buddhist monks from Sailendra family's realm. Panangkaran awarded the Kalara village to
the Sangha (the Buddhist monastic community).[3] Based on this inscription, Candi Sari was probably the
monastery for monks who served the nearby Kalasan temple.

The ruins were discovered in early 1920s, and in 1929, an effort to reconstruct the temple began and was
finished in 1930. However it was incomplete because many parts are missing including the outer base that
surrounds the temple, and the extended front room and front stairs that once projected from the east wall of
the temple.[2]

Architecture
The temple consists of three parts; the base, the body, and the roof. The temple has a rectangular plan,

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measuring 17.3 m north-south, 10 m west-east, and soaring 17 m in

height. Only some parts of the base remain, the outer base
stoneblocks are missing. The entrance door is located at the eastern
side with a gate adorned with a Kala and elephant carving. Windows
surround the walls and consist of lower and upper rows. There is also
a horizontal middle "belt" line around the wall, suggesting that it was
a two storey building.[2]

The interior consists of three rooms; north room, central room, and
south room, each measuring 3 m x 5.8 m. These three rooms are
connected with doorways on the eastern side of the room along the A replica of Candi Sari, one of the
north-south axis. On the wall of each room are found rows of three pavilions built for the Dutch
extruding stone blocks which used to support wooden beams and a East Indies section at Paris
wooden ceiling separating the upper and lower floors. In some places Exposition Universelle (1900) in the
there are diagonal stones which is probably the place where there Jardins du Trocadro
used to be a wooden stairway.

The upper level was probably used by monks for meditation or

worship. Some suggest the upper rooms were used as the place for
monks to stay, rest, or sleep, while the lower rooms was the place for
worship. In the lower rooms there are some elevated parts where
statues were once placed, but now the statues are gone. On the side
walls are found niches, probably to place oil lamps. In the inner part
of each window there are holes to install wooden window bars.

These rooms were topped with three horse-shoe arched niches

adorned with Kala-makaras and crowned with three rows of stupas.
Between these arched niches are found rain-water drainage and
"jaladwara" water spouts taking the form of a giant sitting on a
snake.

The outer wall is richly decorated with Buddhist deities. External

decoration include Tara with flowers and Bodhisattvas with musical
Photo of Candi Sari (1901) by
instruments.[4] These figures are arranged in two upper and two Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis
lower rows and placed on each side of the windows. They form a
total of 36 statues: 8 on the east, north, and south sides respectively,
and 12 on the west side. These Buddhist figures are usually found in the graceful position of Tribhanga,
holding red or blue lotuses and displaying peaceful and serene facial expressions. Images of Kinnara-
Kinnari also adorn the walls. However, unlike the common depiction of Kinnara as heavenly creature with
an upper human-shaped part and a lower bird-shaped part, the unusual image of Kinnara found on the
northern wall shows a winged deity (somewhat similar to how commonly angels are portrayed).

On the outer wall of the temple are found the traces of plaster called vajralepa (lit: diamond plaster). The
same substance is also found in the nearby Kalasan temple. The white-yellowish plaster was applied to
protect the temple wall, but now the plaster has worn off.

See also
Candi of Indonesia

References

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1. Cds, George (1968). Walter F. Vella, ed. The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. trans.Susan Brown Cowing.
University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.
2. The information board at the Sari Temple vicinity
3. Soetarno, Drs. R. second edition (2002). Aneka Candi Kuno di Indonesia (Ancient Temples in Indonesia), pp. 41.
Dahara Prize. Semarang. ISBN 979-501-098-0.
4. Dumaray, Jacques (1978). translated by Michael Smithies, ed. Borobudur. Oxford University Press. p. 47.
ISBN 978-0-19-580379-2.

External links
Sari Temple (http://www.berhatinyaman.com/sari-temple/)
location on wikimapia (http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=-7.8878732&lon=112.6638588&z=18&l=0&
m=s&v=9).
Official site (http://www.borobudurpark.co.id/en-sari.html)
Article with photos (http://www.borobudur.tv/sari.htm) from borobudur.tv

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