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Scope note
Indonesian religious structures based on an Indianized shrine with a pyramidal tower. This was the essential form on which virtually all the stone Indianizing architecture of Southeast Asia was originally based. The Javanese, like the Khmer, evolved an elaborate architecture of their own around the basic Indian prototype.
candis
Accepted term: 13-May-2024