Monumental Java

It has already been remarked that the natives knew of the existence of the _chandi_ Boro Budoor long before Cornelius’ discoveries or, rather, that they never lost sight of it,...

Except during a period of some four centuries and a half, from about 940 till the palmy days of Mojopahit, when declining Hindu civilisation, for reasons as yet unexplained, sou...

When, suddenly, for reasons still unknown, the classic period of art in Central Java closed, about 850 Saka (A.D. 928), East Java awakened and entered on an era of artistic acti...

The _pasangrahan_, built for the convenience of visitors to the Boro Budoor, offers fair accommodation to the student of oriental architecture and lover of art in whatever form....

The vast plain of Prambanan, which extends southward from the foot of the Merapi, one of Java’s most active volcanoes,[35] is, or rather was, studded with Sivaïte and Buddhist t...

Although the theory of Gautama the Sugata’s life-story being only a repolished solar myth has broken down, its vital element of emancipation from Brahmanic bonds is certainly mu...

Where five residencies--Samarang, Pekalongan, Banyumas, the Bagelen and the Kadu--meet between two seas, the wonderland of the Diëng links the eastern and western chain of volca...

Among the ancient monuments of Insulinde[125] the _chandi_ Boro Budoor stands _facile princeps_. Situated in the Kadu, it is easily reached from Jogjakarta, about twenty-five mi...

It is the crowning virtue of all great Art that, however little is left of it by the injuries of time, that little will be lovely. JOHN RUSKIN, _Mornings in Florence (Santa Croc...

The Batu Tulis, lit. “the inscribed stone”, near Bogor, commemorates the feats of a certain prince, Parabu Raja Purana, otherwise Ratu Dewata, and calls him the founder of Pakua...

1. The Boro Budoor (Cephas Sr.) _Frontispiece_ 2. _Chandi_ Pringapoos (Archaeological Service through Charls and van Es) 43 3. _Chandi_ Arjuno on the Diëng Plateau (Archaeologic...