SISTEM PENANDAAN TOKOH GANA PADA CANDI BUDDHA DI JAWA TENGAH

Abstract

Temple as a  result of culture during Hindu-Buddha  is a building depicting cosmogony concept. Despitefully, temple also is  a replica from mount Mahameru residence of the deities. Figure Gana is one of creature chiseled at temple wall, as complement of depiction of cosmos. Existence of this fgure at temple contains purposes and objectives. Problem which will be broken, that is: ( 1) How denoting system of fgure Gana at  temple Borobudur and  temple Mendut? ( 2) How  location denoting system of fgure Gana at the temple? This research is focused on the Gana at Borobudur and Mendut temples. The fgure of Gana is analysed by semiotic approach because by this approach every fgure chiseled at temple relating to signs: signifer (‘penanda’) and signifed (‘petanda’), as according to semiotics study coverage. Semiotic analyse to Gana fgure can only be done if various descriptions about its ommission have been known. The informations which explain the Gana fgure have gotten from written sources of establishment rules and of symbolic meaning on every part of temple made by the architects and priest alive in theirs days. The research procedure was divided into three phases: preparation, feld study, and data analysis phase. From the result of this research and the discussion, we know that the depiction of Gana fgure at Borobudur and Mendut temples doesn’t get out from cosmogony concept. Depiction system of Gana fgure was adapted by symbolic meaning on every parts of temple. So, it can be said that Gana is an icon from a religious situation during Hindu-budha and a symbol from “upper world†(heaven). The location of Gana fgure at temple is becaming an icon from cosmogony concept.

Keywords: Gana, temple, semiotic.