Cangkuang Temple is one of the sacred buildings constructed
in accordance with the concept of ideal-space layout Hinduism at that time.
This temple is thought of as Mount Meru which stands grandly in the middle of
the ocean surrounded by a series of mountains. Surrounding air is cool because
it is located in the highlands. That is why the Government of Garut regency
make this region as an object of cultural tourism and nature tourism.
Cangkuang area is a tourist attraction in the form of a lake, with Kampung Pulo traditional house, and a temple on an "island" in the middle of the lake. The island is actually like a peninsula jutting eastward into the middle of the lake. To reach this location is within a four-wheeled vehicles, jarakny approximately 45km from the city of Bandung.
The temple buildings Cangkuang position is located in an "island" in the form of small elongated, longitudinal west-east direction with a size of 16.5 hectares. This small island located in the middle of a lake known as Cangkuang Situ. In this lake than there is a long island, there are also two other islands located in the south and southeast of Long Island. Both these islands are smaller and slightly rounded shape. All around this small island is a watery swamp land.
Seeing the shape, the temple can be compared Cangkuang temple group in Gedongsongo (Temple II) and Dieng (Temple Puntadewa). Profile shapes the legs, body, and the roof have in common. Similarly, the entry door has a viewer. The roof consists of three levels and each level there are tree top ornament and antefix decoration. If at the temple in Central Java has a carved decoration antefix with vine leaf decoration, the decoration on the temple Cangkuang antefix his innocence. Other decorations at the entrance to the temple in Central Java is the time and makara decoration, the decoration on the temple Cangkuang is not available. Based on this comparison, it is expected that the Temple was no standing Cangkuang at about the seventh century AD 8 to 9.
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