See the Hindu, And Buddhist Historical On One Temple Known as Ratu Boko Temple


Thousand years ago, in Sailendra dynasty era, the king was Rakai Panangkaran, built another glorious Buddhist temple. He built the temple in purpose to build another place and religious place to pray to the Gods, but after many years ahead, the temple had another function as a place for king to stay during the king’s illness. An archaeological site known as Ratu Boko Palace hold a great mystery and unclear history that remains unsolved. Named after the legendary King Boko, mentioned in Roro Jonggrang folklore, the 16 hectares sites is located on a plateau.

This temple has 250.000 m2 and divided into 4 main directions. Those are centre, west, south, and east. In the main centre part, includes the main gate, the field or park, the crematorium temple, pool, berumpak, and Paseban. Meanwhile, the Pendopo is located on the south. On the south, there are the main pendopo, three temples, pool and keputren complex.

Around Ratu Boko temple, there are many epigraphs that craved with the history of it. Based the epigraph, it was told that Ratu Boko temple was a Vihara named Abhayagiriwihara. After the conquest of the Hindu part, this temple turned into Kraton (place for the king of Hinduism).

While inside Ratu Boko temple, you can see the acculturation between the Hindu and Buddhist. It can be seen from the icon of Lingga and Yoni. Lingga in Sanskrit literally means symbol, and is sometimes used in the specific connotation as symbol of gender.
Lingga represents to the male, and Yoni represents to the female. Also, there are many statues of Durga, Kali and Hindu God. Therefore, you can see the Buddhist nuance by seeing the stupa and stupika.

The Nuance of the Ratu Boko
Do not hesitate to save your energy and your time to walk around the temple, first you will feel the calm situation, and watch beautiful green rice field around the temple. As you walk inside the temple, you will be spoiled by the kindness of the guides that will welcome you and take you around.

Another beautiful view that shows up in Ratu Boko temple is the Sunset. Imagine that in Ratu Boko, you can clearly see the silhouette of the Sunset. The stunning sunset always seems spoiled you with many surprising things.

Sitting around waiting for the sunset is great. The place is breezy and everyone is just sitting on the ground waiting for the moment. Definitely have to time your visit at sunset.

The entrance ticket to Ratu Boko included a drink (coffee or tea) and snack at the restaurant. Sunset and sunrise are the precise moment and exotic to watch the beauty of Ratu Boko temple because the sun is not that hot. For you who wants to visit this temple in the afternoon, you don’t need to worry because they also provide a lot of gazebos ready to be rent.

Another function as a temple, nowadays, many events are held inside Ratu Boko Temple. The events entirely about the art and the exhibition art or music festival. So, this temple is very suitable for everyone who loves art and travel to explore the culture and the history.

How to get there:
Need about 30 minutes from prambanan by motorcycle to reach this temple. If you decide to go there by bus, it won’t be possible; due to the way will not fit enough. But you can take mini bus from Prambanan temple, normally it includes the ticket entrance from Prambanan and Ratu Boko.

Best time to go there:
If you prefer to go there to see the sunset, you better go to the dry season, because when the rain drops you should forget the sunset. The temple is opened from 6 am to 6 pm.


Latest News

Indonesia’s Heritage Collection: Van Der Wijck Fort -Kebumen

One of the many Dutch heritage forts, Van Der Wijck Fort is unique because the entire building is made of red brick. You’ve seen? This fort with an octagonal plan looks more charming with its red color, compared to Dutch forts which are generally colorless or white. It looks like the fort from the front and inside uses red bricks, but still with the characteristics of a Dutch fort in Indonesia which has a large building structure, such as windows, doors and rooms. With an area of 3606,625 square meters,…


10 Most Unique Tourist Villages in Magelang, Makes You Don’t Want to Go Home

Magelang has a number of temples as the favorite tourist destinations. Besides Borobudur, you can visit several other places, such as tourist villages. There are several tourist villages around Borobudur Temple with a unique and interesting atmosphere. In addition to saving nature, you can also get to know the culture behind it. Temanggung VillageTemanggung Village was viral because it was called Nepal van Java. The view of the village at the foot of Mount Sumbing is really epic. Tanjungsari VillageIf you are interested in the process of making honey, you…


Amazing Tourist Destinations in Jepara, Central Java

Punuk Sapi BeachPunuk Sapi Beach is also popularly known as Pantai Lemah Abang which means “red land beach”. It is named so because this beach is indeed filled with mounds to hills with red soil that at first glance looks like a cow’s hump (punuk sapi is cow’s hump in English). This beach has black sand, but it is also beautiful like the white sand beaches. There are hammocks and swings that you can use to relax, as well as take pictures from a height. This beach is located in…


Arjuna Temple, A Relic of Hindu in the Ancient Mataram Kingdom

Arjuna Temple complex is the most photographed and visited of the surviving temples on the Dieng Plateau. Situated just a few hundred meter from the homestays in Dieng village, they are an obvious first stop on a tour of the sights in the area. Though they are far from the most imposing of Javanese temples, they are the earliest surviving Hindu temples in Central Java, so they are of great importance historically. Built a century or two before the great temples around Yogyakarta and Magelang, they mark the original phase…


Hotel Deals of the Day
Interesting Links
Indonesia Map HD
DiveWonderfulIndonesia.com
javatours.com
bali-hotel.com
Bromo
borneoecotour.com
Find Us on :
Find Us on :