Part One -- Candi Prambanan; An updated introduction / Roy E. Jordaan -- Preliminary description -- Name and legend -- Discovery, excavation, and restoration -- The location from a culture-historical perspective -- Dating the temple complex: retracing its history -- About the founders, art styles, and archaeological theories -- The mythical Mount Meru and the churning of the ocean -- Design, meaning, and sectarian sensibilities -- The statues -- The reliefs -- General conclusions -- Part Two -- The Prambanan temple pits / J.W. IJzerman -- The first Prambanan R�ama relief / I. Ph. Vogel -- The Prambanan statues / N.J. Krom -- The god Brahm�a surrounded by maha�r�si / F.D.K. Bosch -- Candi A and candi B / B. de Haan -- The arrangement of the R�ama reliefs of Candi Loro Jonggrang and the course of the sun / W.P. Stutterheim -- The reconstruction of the �Siva temple at Prambanan / V.R. Romondt -- Prambanan 1954 / A.J. Bernet Kempers.

In praise of Prambanan is devoted to the Hindu-Javanese temple complex of Candi Prambanan, also known by its locally more popular name of Candi Loro Jonggrang. The book has two parts. Part One is a general introduction to the temple complex based on an examination of the existing scholarly literature. It offers a detailed state-of-the-art survey of publications on Candi Prambanan as well as of the religious conditions which made its creation possible. Part Two contains a selection of important articles - in English translation - about the temple complex by prominent Dutch scholars all of whom had first-hand knowledge of it: J.W. IJzerman, J. Ph. Vogel, N.J. Krom, F.D.K. Bosch, B. de Haan, W.F. Stutterheim, V.R. van Romondt and A.J. Bernet Kempers. The book is richly illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. Roy E. Jordaan, currently a private scholar, obtained his PhD in anthropology from Leiden University.

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