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Candi Sewu is a Mahayana Buddhist temple complex in central Java, Indonesia, the second-largest Buddhist monument in the country after Borobudur. The complex was built between approximately 780 and 792 CE under the Sailendra dynasty, as documented in the Manjusrigrha inscription of 792 CE. The plan is a mandala layout with one central temple surrounded by 240 smaller perwara temples arranged in four concentric rectangular rings — a total of 249 structures, though sewu means thousand in Javanese, exaggerating the count. Construction is of andesite stone. The complex was severely damaged in earlier centuries by earthquakes and looting, and the major restoration program by the Indonesian government began in 1981 with much of the central temple and many perwara reconstructed using anastylosis. The 27 May 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake caused significant new damage that triggered a renewed conservation campaign.
The central temple still rises above the cleared field of perwara foundations.