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Instead of being built on a flat surface, Borobudur is built on a natural hill. However, construction technique is similar to other temples in Java. Without the inner spaces seen in other temples, and with a general design similar to the shape of pyramid, Borobudur was first thought more likely to have served as a stupa, instead of a temple. [99]
Borobudur's main stupa in mid 19th-century, a wooden deck had been installed above the main stupa. The large central stupa that crowns the Borobudur monument has a hollow chamber within, that is completely walled off from the outside. When opened during the monument's restoration, it was found to contain an unfinished Buddha image that may ...
Borobudur Temple Compounds is the World Heritage designation of the area of three Buddhist temples in Central Java, Indonesia. It comprises Borobudur , Mendut , and Pawon . The temples were built during the Shailendra dynasty around the 8th and 9th centuries CE and fall on a straight line.
One of the earliest Buddhist sites still in existence is at Sanchi, India, and this is centred on a stupa said to have been built by King Ashoka (273–236 BCE). The original simple structure is encased in a later, more decorative one, and over two centuries the whole site was elaborated upon.
The Piprahwa stupa is one of the earliest ... The most elaborate stupa is the 8th-century Borobudur monument ... Commemorative stupa, built to commemorate events in ...
One of the famous exhibit is the "Unfinished Buddha", [5] believed to be discovered in the main stupa during early restoration effort in early 20th century. However today this opinion is highly doubted, this unperfect Buddha statue was probably taken from elsewhere and the inner chamber of main stupa was more likely originally designed to be ...
Lake Borobudur is an ancient lake that has been suggested once existed surrounding Borobudur Buddhist monument in Kedu Plain, Central Java, Indonesia. Unlike other temples, which were built on a flat surface, Borobudur was built on a bedrock hill, 265 m (869 ft) above sea level and 15 m (49 ft) above the floor of the dried-out paleolake. [1]
In 2003 the finger bone was one of 64 culturally significant artifacts officially prohibited from leaving China for exhibitions. [37] In 2009, the relic was enshrined in the world's tallest stupa recently built within the domains of Famen Temple. [38] Two bone fragments believed to belong to Gautama Buddha are enshrined at Yunju temple. [39]