Borobudur Temple

Borobudur Temple is located in Magelang Regency, about 15 km to the southwest of Yogyakarta. The biggest Buddhist temple in Indonesia's cultural heritage has been duniadan has been listed in the World Heritage list (world heritage list), which was originally numbered 348 and then converted to 582 in 1991. The location of the Temple of Borobudur which is a small hill surrounded by mountains Incise, g. Merapi and Merbabu mountains northeast of g., and g. g. Sindoro Sumbing and Northwest.

To date there has been no agreement among experts about the name Borobudur. In the book of Negarakertagama (1365 M) touted about Budur, a sacred Buddha Vajradhara flow. According to the Inscription in Sri Kahulunan Casparis (842 M) declared about "Kawulan i Bhumi Sambhara". Based on that he argues that Borobudur is a great place to worship. Earth Shambara is the name of a place in Borobudur. According to Poerbatjaraka, Borobudur means Monastery Budur, while according to the Raffles, ' coal ' means big and ' budhur ' is a word in Javanese which means Buddha.

Text based on the found in some rocks in the Borobudur Temple, the experts argue that this temple was built around the year 780 ad, during the reign of the Kings of the House of Sanjaya. Its construction took decades and was completed around the year 830 M, i.e., during the reign of King Samaratungga of Sailendra dynasty House. It is said that the architect of the Temple of the most great name has not yet been obtained, Gunadharma information written about this character. In the year 950 M, Borobudur Temple buried by lava eruption of Merapi and g. recently rediscovered nearly a thousand years later in 1814. Rediscovery of Borobudur Temple is of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

At the time of Raffles visited Semarang, he received information that in the Kedu found piles of stone's picture. It is said that in the year 1814, a horde of people went to an area in the County Both to find out more about the legend relating to a hill near the village of Boro. After membabat shrubs and digging and clearing mounds of volcanic ash, they found a number of large chunks of stone berpahatkan strange pictures. Raffles then instructs Cornelius, a Netherlands, to clean the stones. Cleanup stack rocks and the surrounding environment was followed by Resident Kedu named Hartman.

Borobudur Temple stands on top of a hill that extends East-West direction. The temple was built from the stones of the beam as much as 47.500 m3, arranged neatly without adhesive, and coated with a layer of putuh ' vajralepa ', such as that found in Kalasan Temple and Sari Temple. Borobudur ancient building with a ladder-shaped double decker limas ride on all four sides, namely, the East, South, West, and North. It is said that on the East side, under the foot, never found the road rises to the top of the Hill. It was alleged that the underlying Borobudur Temple facing East and the main entrance is located on the East side.

Bottom stairs decorated with a dragon's head with a gaping mouth and a lion is sitting in it. Allegations that the Borobudur Temple facing East is reinforced by the existence of bas-reliefs pradaksina (read Rotate clockwise), originating from and terminating at the East side. In addition, a statue of a lion, the largest of which is also on the East side. The stairs heading to a higher level are equipped with a beautiful carved gates with kalamakara without the mandible above the threshold. At first the overall height of this ancient building reach 42 m, but after the restoration of the high reached only 34.5 m. Batur temple or feet squared squares with spacious floor plan base 123 x 123 m, equipped Viewer that jutted out on each side. The whole building consists of 10 floors is reached 15, 13 m2. The floor I ended on the floor of the square-shaped, while the SEVENTH floor VII to X-circular floors.

Borobudur Temple has no room for places of worship or performing worship because the temple was built as a place to visit and deepen knowledge of the Buddha. The overall wall wide reach 1500 m2, decorated with 1460 panil reliefs, each 2 m wide.

The number of Buddha statues, including those that have been damaged, reached 504 pieces. The Buddha statues depicting the Buddha in various attitudes.

-Statues at the East side depict the Dhyani Buddhas, namely Buddha Aksobhya cross-legged with the attitude of the offending hand ground or the attitude of Bhumiparsyamudra.
-Statues on the South side depicts the Dhyani Buddhas Ratnasambhawa, IE the Buddha sitting cross-legged with hands gives grace or the attitude of Varamudra.
-Statues on the West side depicts Amitabha Buddha, namely the Dhyani Buddha bers