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Candi Mendut is a Mahayana Buddhist temple in central Java, Indonesia, located 3 kilometres east of Borobudur and aligned with that great monument and the small Candi Pawon along a single straight axis. The temple was built around 824 CE under the Sailendra dynasty, possibly under King Indra. The structure rises 26.4 metres on a tall stepped basement and houses three monumental stone sculptures still in their original positions inside the cella — a seated Buddha Vairocana flanked by bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani, each carved from a single block of andesite roughly 3 metres tall. These three statues are among the finest surviving large-scale Buddhist sculptures in Java. The exterior walls bear narrative reliefs from the Jataka tales depicting the previous lives of the Buddha. The temple was rediscovered by Dutch authorities in 1836 and progressively restored.
The cella remains accessible, and the three Buddhas still occupy their ancient positions in the cool stone interior.