Still standing🛕 Temple & religious buildingMiddle Ages & early modern
Borobudur
The sanctuary unites Buddhist teachings with Javanese building traditions and ideas about landscape. It is once again a Buddhist pilgrimage site and an important centre of Indonesian heritage management.
Photo: Heri nugroho · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Facts
- Place
- Near Magelang, Indonesia
- Civilisation / patron
- Sailendra dynasty in Java
- Built
- c. 780 – 840
- Status
- Still standing
- UNESCO World Heritage since
- 1991
- UNESCO World Heritage
History
Borobudur is a monumental Buddhist sanctuary built in layers of volcanic stone on a hill. Square terraces with narrative reliefs lead to circular platforms bearing openwork stupas and Buddha images. The route can be read as a ritual journey through different levels of the Buddhist cosmos. After a long period of neglect, the monument was rediscovered and preserved through extensive restoration, especially in the twentieth century.
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Sources: Wikipedia — Borobudur