Borobudhur Temple
Barabudhur temple is a Buddhist temple located in Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. This temple is located approximately 100 km to the southwest of Semarang, 86 km to the west of Surakarta, and 40 km to the northwest of Yogyakarta. This stupa-shaped temple was founded by Mahayana Buddhists around the year 800 AD during the reign of the Syailendra dynasty. Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple or temple in the world, as well as one of the largest Buddhist monuments in the world.
Borobudur Temple was arranged using square andesite stone. The shape of the structure such as a punden terraces that are getting up increasingly smaller with four stairs that are on each side of the compass (east, south, west, and north).
The structure consists of 9 terraces consisting of 6 terraces with a rectangular and 3 terraces with a circle. Among the terrace forms there is a floor called a plateau. In the middle of the floor, you will find a small stairwell with couples of stairs connecting each floor that you can use as a passage to go to the top. On each level of the floor, there are a lot of relief panels and Buddha statues spread around it. Based on the data, there are 2,672 panels and 504 statues in total. There is a dome located on the top center of the temple and is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues, each seated inside a perforated stupa. Borobudur Temple has a length of 121.66 meters, 121.38 meters wide and 35.40 meters high.
According to Buddhist philosophy the Borobudur Temple is an imitation of the universe that consists of three vertical levels, namely Kamadhatu, Rupadhatu, and Arupadhatu. Kamadhatu is the lower part of the temple which symbolizes the underworld, describing human behavior that is still bound by worldly passions (ordinary human places). Rupadhatu is the middle part of the temple that symbolizes the nature between, describing human behavior that has begun to leave worldly desires, but is still bound by the real world. Arupadhatu is the upper part of the temple which symbolizes the upper realm, the place of the gods. The symbol of the intangible element and as a sign of levels that have left worldly passions.
The Borobudur Temple stones are thought to originate from rivers around Borobudur with a total volume of around 55,000 meters³ (approximately 2,000,000 pieces of stone).
