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initiated the clearing and reconstruction of the main temple, and in 1915 H. Maclaine Pont drew the reconstruction of a temple of the second row. It was de Haan who reconstructed the
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had caused the dome in the main temple to collapse. In 1885 Jan Willem IJzerman, revising some plans of the temple complex made earlier by
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temple, located east of the Sewu temple, probably served as guardian temples for the
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pattern around the main central hall. This configuration expresses the
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199:Sailendra
187:Completed
159:7°44′37″S
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116:Buddhist
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282:folklore
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235:Buddhist
232:Mahayana
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1178:Plaosan
1168:Kalasan
1143:Lumbung
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737:may be
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