Dieng Temple
Friday, October 12, 2012
Dieng
temple is a collection of temples located in the foothills of Dieng, Wonosobo,
Central Java, Indonesia. This Hindu Shiva temples were built between the late
estimated the 8th century until the beginning of the 9th century. It is believed
to be the oldest temple in Java. Until now there has been found written
information about the history of Dieng Temple, but experts estimate that these
temples were built by the kings of Sanjaya dynasty.
In
Dieng was discovered a stone inscription dated 808 AD, which is the oldest
inscription written in ancient Javanese, who are still extant today. A statue
of Shiva were found in the area is now kept in the National Museum in Jakarta.
Dieng Temple was probably built in two phases. The first stage took place
between the end of the 7th century until the first quarter of the 8th century,
includes the construction of temple Arjuna, Semar Temple, Temple and Temple
Gatutkaca Heroine. The second phase is a continuation of the first phase, which
lasted till about the year 780 AD.
Dieng
Temple was first discovered back in 1814. When it was a British soldier who was
traveled to the area to see a bunch Dieng temple submerged in a puddle lake. In
1956, Van Kinsbergen led the drying lake where the temples were located.
Cleanup efforts continued by the Dutch government in 1864, followed by
recording and taking pictures by Van Kinsbergen.
The
temples is divided into 3 groups and 1 individual temple named after a
character in the puppet story from the Mahabharata. The third group is the
group of Arjuna temple, Gatutkaca Group, Dwarawati groups and one individual
temple is Bima tample.
0 comments:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Post a Comment