Sari temple

7°45′41.49″S 110°28′27″E / 7.7615250°S 110.47417°E / -7.7615250; 110.47417

Candi Sari, front view
Candi Sari, from the rear
inside Candi Sari
A replica of Candi Sari, one of the three pavilions built for the Dutch East Indies section at Paris Exposition Universelle (1900) in the Jardins du Trocadéro

The Sari Temple (Indonesian: Candi Sari; Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦝꦶ​ꦱꦫꦶ, romanized: Candhi Sari, also known as Candi Bendan) is an 8th-century Buddhist temple[1]: 90  located at Dusun Bendan, Tirtomartani village, Kalasan, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is located about 130 meters (430 ft) northeast of the Kalasan temple. The temple was a two-story building with wooden beams, floors, and 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 Saré translates as "to sleep" in Javanese, which also confirms the habitation nature of the building.

  1. ^ Cœdès, 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