Borobudur is located in Indonesia's Central Java province, Borobudur is also a Mahayana Buddhist pagoda relics in Indonesia.
There is the lagest Buddhist building in the world when 9th century .On the end of June 2012, Guinness World Records recognized Borobudur as the largest Buddhist temple in the world.
When volcanic eruptions, the building is sinking and forest cover it around a millennium , almost a thousand years until the early 19th century, the building has been cleared.
For the first time during the repair, people discovered it that even into a straight line of it and two other Buddhist temples, it is Mendut and Pawon. From the local legend, The three temples of architectural and decorative craft belonging to the same period, so they speculated that the three building is represent to the religious practices of some untraceable on that time.
There is no written record of who is the builder of Borobudur, and we can’t find out the reason why people build this building. After a reasonable speculate, Borobudur may be built in AD 800. Javanese rumors that Gunadharma is the architect of the Borobudur, but there are no any evidence to prove it.
Why is this pagoda will be abandoned is still a mystery . Some people are speculate , in the 15th century Javanese are changed to be the Muslims and abandoned the pagoda at the same time.
When the British rule in 1811-1816. Cornellius and his two hundred men are spent two months in the jungle to carve out a road leading to the Borobudur.
When 1835, Kudu’s chief executive of Netherlands name Hartmann are continue the work of Cornellius, eventually to explore the whole pagoda.
When 1842 Hartmann survey the whole pagoda, but people do not know what he have discovered . Later, the Dutch East India appointed by the Government engineer FC Wilsen to exploration, in a 1853 report, he mentioned a hundred times the Big Buddha at Borobudur .
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Wikipedia,(2012 July 31),Borobudur.
The kaki of the monument is the most interesting part--sadly much of it destroyed. This is cut and paste --give me your thoughts.
ReplyDeletesir, i din copy and paste, this is all from my own thinking, after i read through all the research.
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