Kalasan is an offering of Maharaja Tejahpurna Panangkararia derived from Sailendra dynasty to thepastor

Solo Road, such as street names in general is a road that connects the city of Yogyakarta to Solo. The road that stretches across nearly 60 kilometers, it is also the liaison to multiple locations of the temple. The route to go Kalasan pretty easy. If we depart from the city of Yogyakarta through the streets of Solo, we will see a temple on the right side of the road (south). The temple was named Temple Kalasan. Administratively, this temple lies in the village Kalibening, Tirtomartani, Kec. Kalasan, Kab. Sleman, Yogyakarta.

Kalasan is located 50 meters south of Road Yogya - Solo, precisely in Kalibening, Tirtomartani Village, District Kalasan, Sleman DIY.

The temple building has a height 34 meters, width 45 meters long and consists of three parts, namely the bottom or foot of the temple, the temple of the body and roof of the temple. The lowest part of the temple is the foot of the temple which stood on a stone base of a square with a size of 45 meters and a width shelf. In this section there are stairs entrance is decorated with makara at the top of the stairs. All around the foot of the temple there is ornate tendrils coming out of a flower pot or vase.

Body temple square with some appearance that juts out in the middle of his side. In the southeast there are booths which can be entered through the east side of the chamber viewer. Inside there are booths that dotted pattern singgasanabersandaran lion standing on the back of an elephant. On the outside of the body temple there is a niche decorated with figure of god figure in standing position by holding a lotus flower.

At each entrance, from the north and south, there are decoration days. At the crest there are decorative flower buds, leaves and tendrils. The top of a tree decorated with paintings of gods and clouds along with Khayangan residents who are playing sounds such as a carrier drum, fiddle, shellfish and camara. The roof of the temple there is a cube which is considered as the summit of nearby Mount Semeru there are several stupas.

Boundary between the roof and the body temple flower terdpat incorporated makhlukkayangan dwarf called Gana. The roof of this temple is octagonal and consists of two levels. On each side at the first level there are Buddha statues depicting Buddhist man and at level two Yani depicts Buddha. For example Yani Ratnasembawa Buddha located on the south side. Bagiana summit likely in the form of the stupa, but failed to be reconstructed back as many stones that have been lost.

Around the temple there is a stupa with a high of approximately 4.60 and amounted to 52 pieces. Stupas can not be rebuilt karenasudah many stones are missing. The specialty of this temple is on the rock face there is a layer called Brajalepha.

Kalasan is the oldest Buddhist relics in the area of ​​Yogyakarta and Central Java as offerings to the goddess Tara. Construction of a temple can be seen from the Temple of Inscriptions Saka 700 or AD 778 Penagari lettered and lettered in Sanskrit which states that the establishment of this temple started from the proposals of the Master of the King who then managed to persuade King Tejahpurna Parapkarana (Kariyana Panangkara), mustika Family dynasty (dynasty Wangsatikala) , to build a shrine for dewatara and a monastery for the pendheta. Then the king rewarded the Village Kalasan to the monastery and the year 778 AD is considered as the year of manufacture Kalasan.

Kalasan is an offering of Maharaja Tejahpurna Panangkararia derived from Sailendra dynasty to thepastor . This information is supported by the inscription Kalasan which are thought to originate from the year 778 AD. Kalasan are Buddhist temples, so this temple faces west. This temple dedicated to Goddess Tara, so there are some people who call this temple as the temple of Tara. Kalasan Pancapana also a wedding gift from the Sanjaya dynasty with Dyah Pramudya Ward from Sailendra dynasty. Sailendra dynasty embraced Buddhism while Sanjaya dynasty embraced Hinduism. Seen the antiquity of our nation has known religious tolerance. Actually, in Kalasan there is a Buddha statue made ​​of bronze. But the statue is now in the Museum of History of Indonesia in Jakarta.