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Candi Plaosan is a Mahayana Buddhist temple complex in central Java, Indonesia, immediately adjacent to Candi Sewu and built in the early 9th century during the joint reign of King Rakai Pikatan of the Hindu Sanjaya dynasty and his Buddhist queen Sri Pramodhawardhani of the Sailendra dynasty. The dedication inscription dates the temple to between 825 and 850 CE. The complex is divided into Plaosan Lor and Plaosan Kidul (north and south groups), each containing two principal twin temples flanked by symmetrical rows of smaller perwara temples and stupas — a distinctive paired-temple layout interpreted as a symbolic union of the two royal lineages. Construction is of andesite stone, and the principal temples preserve a series of refined stone reliefs of bodhisattvas inside the cellae. The Indonesian government has progressively restored the principal temples since the 1990s.
The twin Plaosan Lor temples stand fully reconstructed, their paired silhouettes still mirroring across the central axis.