SILENT SENTINELS OF ANCIENT GLORY. THE PRAMBANAN HINDU TEMPLES OF EAST JAVA – by Bernard VanCuylenburg After a spellbinding tour of the Borobudur Monument I took the road well travelled to Yogyakarta, because North East of this great city I was aware of another cultural pearl which for the past 1200 years has kept a silent vigil in majestic splendour, lost to the world in the solitude of the jungle defying time and the elements, until it was discovered in 1885. These are the spectacular Hindu temples of Prambanan which are the best examples of ancient Java’s Hindu culture, and Indonesia’s most outstanding example of Hindu art. I visited the site early morning when the majestic Shiva temples were punctuating the morning mists to present their timeless profiles to the new day. All the temples in the area were built between the 8th and10th centuries AD when religious harmony prevailed ...
Jun 4, 2024
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