borobudur temple facts Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/borobudur-temple-facts Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:43:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 BOROBUDUR INDONESIA http://toursmaps.com/borobudur-indonesia.html http://toursmaps.com/borobudur-indonesia.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:36:40 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=221038 Borobudur c. 825 CE TEMPLE MAGELANG, JAVA, INDONESIA ARCHITECT UNKNOWN The world’s greatest Buddhist monument, Borobudur is a vast 9th-century temple that combines a stupa (shrine to the Buddha), a pilgrimage site, and a three-dimensional symbol of Buddhist beliefs. Built on a hill, it is an enormous pyramid adorned with elaborate carved reliefs and houses statues of the Buddha. No one knows when Borobudur was built or by whom, but construction seems to have been completed around 825 ce under the Sailendra dynasty, a family of powerful rulers who promoted Mahayana Buddhism. Their architects took an existing Buddhist form, the

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