Kalasan Temple (Yogyakarta)

Kalasan temple is located only 50 meters at the edge of the road south from the Yogyakarta-Solo, 14 kilometers, and more than 600 meters in the Southwest Sari temple.

Kalasan temple is the oldest relics of the Buddha in the areas of Yogyakarta and Central Java and was built in 778 CE as offerings to the Gods of Tara.

Although the temple Kalasan figured Buddha, but this is the founders of Rakai Panangkaran Wamca Sanjaya that follow the Hindu religion, seduction of the teachers from wamca Syailendra that embrace Buddhism.
Kalasan temple is also famous as the temple hiasannya beautiful and exquisite carvings batunya. In addition, ornament and relief on the outer walls coated there is a kind of cement called vajralepa.