{"id":8575,"date":"2009-12-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/18\/ancient-temple-site-found-in-indonesia-has-hindu-and-buddhist-roots\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:00:00","slug":"ancient-temple-site-found-in-indonesia-has-hindu-and-buddhist-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/18\/ancient-temple-site-found-in-indonesia-has-hindu-and-buddhist-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Temple Site Found In Indonesia Has Hindu And Buddhist Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?newsid=1324328\">www.dnaindia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA, December 18, 2009: Construction workers have found old structures, believed to be part of a 9th and 10th century temple, in Yogyakarta in Indonesia, with a specific architectural style and relief ornaments on its sides resembling those found at other significant historic Hindu and Buddhist temples.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in the Jakarta Post, the workers, using a backhoe, had come across a stone structure that appeared to be part of an ancient temple, at a depth of about 10 feet, while digging foundations for a new library building at the university on in Sleman regency.<\/p>\n<p>Indung Panca Putra, the chairman of the center&#8217;s protection working group, said that the unearthed part of the structure is unique because it appears to be comparatively intact, has extremely fine ornaments and is made from a high quality, non-porous andesit stone. &#8220;Only a temple of high importance for its time used this kind of material. This is why the reliefs have remained intact despite their age,&#8221; said Indung, pointing at pictures of the structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.dnaindia.com YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA, December 18, 2009: Construction workers have found old structures, believed to be part of a 9th,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}