When we visited Central Java, certainly in our minds implied a magnificent building made of stone Borobudur Temple
Borobudur is a Buddhist temple located at Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.
The location of the temple is approximately 100 km southwest of Semarang, 86 km to the west of Surakarta, and 40 km northwest of Yogyakarta.
Stupa temple was founded by the Mahayana Buddhists around the year 800 AD during the reign of the Sailendra dynasty. Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple or shrine in the world, and one of the largest Buddhist monument in the world
UNESCO calls as a monument Borobudur stupa complex world's grandest and is visited by pilgrims in the middle of the 9th century to the early 11th century. Buddhists who want to get enlightenment flocked from India, Cambodia, Tibet, and China. Not only is magnificent and large, wall sculptures Borobudur met in 2672 that if the relief panels arranged in rows will reach a length of 6 km! It is touted as an ensemble of Buddhist reliefs largest and most comprehensive in the world, unsurpassed in artistic value.
Based Karang tengah inscription dated on 26 May 824, Borobudur was built by King Samaratungga between the 8th century until the 9th century, together with Mendut and Pawon.
The development process lasted for 75 years under the leadership of architect Gunadarma. Although not familiar with computers and other advanced equipment, Gunadarma able to implement the interlock system in the construction of the temple. A total of 60,000 cubic meters of andesite, amounting to 2,000,000 blocks of stone were brought from Elo and Progo River sculpted and assembled into a giant puzzle that covers a small hill to form Borobudur.
Located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of the city of Yogyakarta, Borobudur is located on a hill on the plains surrounded by two pairs of twin mountains; Sundoro-cleft mountain in northwest and Merbabu-Merapi in the northeast, to the north there Tidar hill, closer to the south there is a range of hills Menoreh, and this temple is located near the confluence of two rivers namely Progo and the Elo River next east.
According to the legend of Java, the area known as Kedu plain is considered a sacred place in Javanese beliefs and hailed as the 'Garden of Java' for its natural beauty and fertility of the soil
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