Candi Kalasan

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Site common name	Candi Kalasan
Type of artwork	Architecture
Village	-
Province/City	Klaten
State	Central Java
Country	Indonesia
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : -7.7673723 Long : 110.4722921

History of production	During the late Central Javanese period, Shailendra dynasty still patronized the construction of Buddhist temples in the town of Kletan, the modern town locating between Yogyakarta and Solo.
Art	Candi Kalasan is one of the first examples of the temple with five sanctum s during the Late Central Javanese Art. This kind of plan would be again repeated at Candi Sewu and Candi Parambanan. The five-sanctum plan had been popularized before in Pala of eastern India. The body of the temple is divided into three parts as before. However, the central offset becomes the projecting porch. The side offsets are decorated by the most beautiful Prasada niches. Though the superstructure is of south Indian fashion, the octagonal miniature tiers are of special character. The miniature towers that decorate the superstructure of the temple are topped by the Stupika, the miniature Stupa which becomes the typical character of this period.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Late Central Javanese Art
Age	9th-10th century A.D.
Religion	Buddhism
Sect	Mahayana

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-02-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali