Ancient Hindu Temple Discovered in Indonesia

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2. Ancient Hindu Temple Discovered in Indonesia Source: Deutsche

Press - Agentur

 

WEST JAVA, INDONESIA, September 3, 2002: A Cangkuang villager hunting

for termites under a tree discovered a sharp hand-carved stone.

Further investigation revealed that the location was the site of an

ancient Hindu temple. The site is especially significant as the

archeologists are hoping to obtain more information about the

Sundanese kingdoms in West Java. Tony Djubiantono, head of West

Java's Bandung Archeology Agency says, "Based on a preliminary

finding of various remains there are indications that this is a Hindu

temple built in the seventh or eighth century." The article

says, "Buddhism and Hinduism were Indonesia's first world religions,

popular among the first kingdoms of Java until the 14th and 15th

centuries when Islam started to gain a greater foothold in the

archipelago." Djubiantono further describes the finding of such a

temple, "as spectacular and very significant for recovering the

missing history of the so-called Tatar Sunda, or Sunda territory."

 

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