Borobudur Temple is one of the
greatest Buddhist monuments in the world. This colossal relic of
Borobudur Temple was built by Sailendra dynasty between 750 and 842 AD;
300 years before Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, 400 years before work had
begun on the great European cathedrals. Little is known about its early
history except that a huge tropical heat to shift and carve the 60,000
Cu m of stone. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles revealed Borobudur Temple
in 1814. He found the temple in ruin condition and ordered that the
site be cleared of undergrowth and thoroughly surveyed. The massive
restoration project began from 1905 to 1910 led by Dr. Tb. van Erp.
With the help of UNESCO, the second restoration to rescue Borobudur was
carried out from August 1973 to 1983.The overall height of Borobudur
was 42 meters, but it is only 34.5 meters now (after restoration), and
has the dimension of 123 x 123 meters. The building has 10 floors or
levels: Hhumtcambharabudara, the mountain of the accumulation of virtue
in the ten stages of Bodhisatva. Borobudur is located 41 km northwest
of Yogyakarta, 7 km south of Magelang, Central Java.
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