Bayunibo Temple

Banyu Nibo Temple which means “water drip” is a relic of Buddha from the 9th century, situated in the complex SKSD Palapa, Piyungan, DIY. Given its remote location in the middle of rice fields and banana groves, away from the group of Buddhist temples others, causing some people call it “the Sebatangkara Banyu Nibo.” Banyu Nibo Temple is a Buddhist temple located not far from Queen Boko Temple, which is in part the east of the city of Yogyakarta to the city Wonosari. This temple was built in around the 9th century when the era of Old Mataram Kingdom. At the top of this temple there is a stupa that is the hallmark of Buddhism.


The situation of this temple still looks pretty solid and intact with kala-makara carved reliefs and other forms of relief that still seems very clear. The temple that had the middle room was first discovered and repaired back to the 1940s, and now in the middle area of ​​rice fields.

Banyunibo temple complex of ruins in the vicinity of Kraton Ratu Boko, precisely in the lowlands in the hamlet Cepit, Bokoharjo, Prambanan. After the visit of Queen Boko, you can easily find this temple. Located approximately 2 miles southwest of Queen Boko. The location is seen alone in between the agricultural area with the background hills of Gunung Kidul in the south.
Built since the 9th century, the temple consists of one main temple facing to the west and six of chapel-shaped stupas arranged in a line south and east of the main temple. The size of each foundation stupa is almost the same, namely 4.80 x 4.80 meters.

In the north of the main temple, there is a stone wall about 65 meters along the longitudinal direction east west. Based on the temple roof shape and form of chapel in the form of the stupa, the religious background Banyunibo is a Buddhist temple.

Main temple measuring 15.325 x 14.25 meters to 14.25 meters high. The body of the temple are smaller than his foot, so that the body is formed around the hall, called the hall. On the west side of the temple there is a viewer with a staircase at its center, serves as an entrance or door to the temple room.
On the wall right of the viewer there is a relief of a woman surrounded by children, while the reliefs on the left wall depicts a man in a sitting position. Both these reliefs depict Hariti, the goddess of fertility in Buddhism and her husband, Vaisaravana.
On the outer wall of the temple there are statues of Bodhisattvas body. On the north side of the chamber wall, east, and south there are niches that stand out and framed with ornate bebentuk kala-makara to place statues.

There is some uniqueness associated with the shape and composition of chapel Banyunibo:

• Rows of temples there are only ancillary to the east and south of the main temple, opposite to the north of the main temple there is a stone wall along approximately 65 m east west longitudinal direction. The existence of the stupa foundations viewer, suggests that the foot of the stupa is of course also berpenampil. Temple Banyunibo including Buddhist shrine is quite rich in decoration. Almost in every part of the temple is filled by a variety of decorations and reliefs, although the parts to one another is often found in the same decorative motif.
• decorations at the foot of the temple. The walls of the temple legs Banyunibo each side is divided into several areas. Field is then filled with ornate carvings of plants out of flower pots. In the cheek area of ​​the temple stairs Banyunibo also filled with an ornament of carved figures lay the unknown identity. Another decoration carved on the ornate staircase wing kala-makara.Hiasan who carved on the frame above the foot of the temple in the form of ornaments antefix-antefix.

• Decoration on the body temple. At the temple Banyuibo entrance located on the west. Because the entrance is made slightly jutted forward, then formed his own roofed chamber door. On the south side of the temple walls are decorated with the lower windows. On both sides of the window there are pilasters, while above the windows there is a relief, statues depicting female figures who were sitting cross-legged on Padmasana. On the north side of the temple walls are decorated form of the building supported on pilasters with decorative pilasters Gana. The west wall of the entrance there. North of the entrance there is a relief statue in a standing posture.

• decorations on the temple wall. On the north side of the temple wall, east and south there are ornate recesses in the form of kala-makara. Forms can be known from the frame recesses relungnya a horseshoe-shaped. In the recesses of the frames there is a bodhi tree ornament as a background niche. On both sides there is a relief that niche be nested.

• decorations on the roof of the temple. Not a lot of carved decoration on the roof of the temple Banyunibo. From the outside it appears that the bottom of the roof of the temple-shaped lotus flower leaf. Above the form is placed punak lotus-shaped roof of the stupa.

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