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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

BOROBUDUR TEMPLE



Borobudur Temple is considered as one of Seven Wonders of the World. It is located at Borobudur District, South of Magelang, Central Java. Borobudur was built by Sammaratungga in the 8th century, and belongs to Budha Mahayana. It is revealed by Sir Thomas Raffles in 1814. The temple was found in ruined condition and was buried.

The overall height was 42 meters, but was only 34.5 meters after restoration, and had the dimension of 123 x 123 meters (15,129 square meters). There were 10 floors. The first floor up to the sixth floor was square form, the seventh to the tenth were round form.


Borobudur is facing to the East with total of 1460 panels (2 meters wide each). Total size of the temple walls was 2500 square meters, full of relief. The total number of panels with relief was 1212.  






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