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Early medieval · Buddhist · Indonesia
Bubrah Temple
Bugisan, Klaten, Central Java · -7.7465°, 110.4930°
Buddha (guardian shrine of the southern direction in the Manjusrigrha mandala)Sailendra (Mataram)Buddhist candi within a mandala plan
Sacred since
800 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
early 9th c. (Sailendra)
Sailendra (Mataram)
History & significance
A 9th-century Buddhist candi between Sewu and Prambanan that served as the southern direction-guardian shrine of the great Manjusrigrha mandala centred on Sewu. Its Javanese name means broken or disorderly, earned by centuries in ruins; a reconstruction costing 11 billion rupiah ran from 2011 and was inaugurated in December 2017.