Mendut Temple

Mendut temple is a Buddhist background. This temple is located in the village Mendut Mungkid district, Magelang regency, Central Java, a few kilometers from Borobudur temple.
Actual temple building materials are brick covered with natural stone. The building is located on a high basement, which looks more elegant and sturdy. Climbed the stairs and the entrance facing southwest. In the basement there are surrounding the hall of the temple body. The roof and decorated three-story with small stupas. The number of small stupas built now is 48 pieces.
On both sides there are stairs reliefs Panchatantra and Jataka stories.
Hariti.

Decorated the temple walls Boddhisatwa in Awalokiteśwara them, Maitreya, Wajrapāṇi and Manjusri. On the wall there are reliefs of the temple body Kalpataru, two angels, Hariti (a yaksi who repent and then follow the Buddha) and Āţawaka.
Buddha in dharmacakramudra position.

In the main temple there is a large Buddhist statues of three: the Dhyani Buddha with his hand Wairocana (mudra) dharmacakramudra. In front of the Buddha statues there were wheel-shaped relief and flanked by a pair of deer, the symbol of Buddha. On the left there is a statue Awalokiteśwara (Padmapāņi) and the right Wajrapāņi statue. Now in front of the statue of Buddha placed hio-hio and baskets to contribute. The visitors could light an incense and prayed here.
Right next Mendut Mendut Buddhist monasteries there. This monastery was formerly a Catholic monastery that later divided the land to the people in the 1950s. Then the people of the land was purchased by a foundation on which Buddhist monastery was built. In this monastery there are dormitories, places of worship, parks, and several statues of Buddha. Some of them are donated by Japan.