On account of its general form (“_par le dessin général, mais par là seulement_”) the French scholar about Indian matters _A. Barth_ called the Båråbudur the only _stûpa_ in Java[9], and this may be just when we understand a _stûpa_ to be only those barrows where were buried some ashes or another relic of the Buddha himself, and when we consider all other _tyanḍis_ in this island—with the exception of the monasteries which are no _tyanḍis_—to be nothing else but the mausolea of sons of Princes, or of _gurus_ and monks, or belonging perhaps to other noble men and women. Hereabove we already saw reasons enough to make us suppose that _Tyanḍi Mĕndut_ had been built on the ashes of the prince of the buddhistic empire of which we don’t know anything but its having been supreme in Central Java for at least eleven centuries ago. These ruins stand in the village after which they have been named, along the road leading from _Jogyåkartå_ to the _Båråbudur_, not far from the _Magĕlang_ route, and as they are the first we reach on our way from one of the two capitals, and generally visited, we shall therefore first describe this most interesting grave temple. Tyanḍi Mĕndut. Leaving Jogyåkartå by steamtram or by carriage, and driving through the dessa of _Muntilan_—properly speaking a Chinese settlement—,turning two or three miles farther on near the stopping-place of _Kalangan_, 8 miles south of _Magĕlang_, into a by-path leading westward to the Båråbudur, we, within an hour, shall arrive at the real javanese village of _Mĕndut_, which is situated on the left bank of the river _Élo_. On this spot, as it were under the shadow of the Buddha temple, eleven centuries old at least, a Roman Catholic mission built a little church and parsonage, and opened a school for javanese children. Living Christianity near the ruins of dead Buddhism!