Only separated from Brambanam by a winding path and a green belt of jungle, stands the great Buddhist temple of chandi Sewon, and the colossal figures flanking the entrance gate indicate a decadent phase of the ancient creed which Boro-Boedoer illustrates in the purity of earlier developement.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
chandi Sewon, the "thousand temples," includes in the number myriad unimportant shrines, ruined, overthrown, or covered with a green network of interlacing creepers.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
The numerous chapels of chandi Sewon contained the galaxy of Tirthankas or Buddhist saints which the materialism of the Jains added to the impersonal subtleties of esoteric Buddhism.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings