Tara Temple

Most people talk about when it comes to Buddhist temples of Borobudur. While many other Buddhist temples in Yogyakarta, one of them, which is closely related to the temple of Borobudur is Tara. This temple, located in the village of Kalibening Kalasan was built by the same person who designed the temple of Borobudur, ie Panangkaran Rakai. Since it is located in Kalasan, this temple is a famous temple named Kalasan.

It was completed in 778 AD, the temple of Tara should be the oldest Buddhist temple in Yogyakarta. This temple, located near the Yogya-Solo Street was present and the marriage is Pancapana Sanjaya dynasty is Dyah Pramudya Wardhani Syailendra dynasty. In addition to the wedding, the temple was also the realization of the second proposal of the King 'to build the sacred temple of the goddess Tara, and monks from the monastery.

Tara Temple is a cube-shaped building the size of each side 45 meters high and 34 meters. Vertically, this temple consists of three parts, namely, at the foot of the temple, the body of the temple and the temple roof. The feet of the temple is a large stone building with a square stone. In this part, there is a staircase with makara ornament at the end. Meanwhile, around the foot of the temple there are decorations of vines coming out of the pots.

The body of the temple project to a central site. Outside the temple of the body is a hollow, decorated with a standing goddess holding lotus. In the Southeast, there is a small room with a throne decorated with a motif of a lion standing on the back of an elephant. The space can be found in the other room on the east side.

The roof of the temple is octagonal and consists of two floors. Doll describe the Buddha is situated on the first floor, while another story is a statue of the Buddha image Yani. Back to the temple is a square, a symbol of Semeru summit Domes decorations. The interface between the body and roof of the temple is decorated with flowers is a dwarf named Gana.

If you notice a detail in the temple, there are also beautiful relief on its surface, for example, wood relief, and a cloud of God and the people of the sky to produce sounds. The inhabitants of heaven to keep rebab (two-stringed musical instrument), bark, and Camara. Including ornamental flowers, leaves and vines. Survey Tara Temple is a typical, because they are coated with a special cement called Brajalepha, obtained from the sap of certain tree.

Around the temple, has 52 domes up to about 4.6 meters. Although these domes are no longer intact, because some parts are missing, you can still enjoy. Visiting this temple, the building's history are familiar with Candi Panagari engraved letters, you do not recognize the amount of Rakai Panangkaran which also had the opportunity to build a sacred building in Thailand.

This temple also shows that in the past there was an attempt to unite people of different religions. The proof is that Panangkaran there was a Hindu temple built Tara in response to proposals for Buddhist monks to be presented to Pancapana who is also a Buddhist. This temple is also one of the sacred buildings that inspired Atisha, a Buddhist from India, which once visited Borobudur and the spread of Buddhism in Tibet.