BOROBUDUR TEMPLE
Borobudur is one of the seven miracles of the world.
Borobudur is the inheritance of our ancestor in olden-time. This temple was
built by King Sri Samaratungga, from Sailendra Dynasty in the 9th
century. It’s the Buddhist temple. Borobudur was built more or less 1,200 years
ago. Nobody understands how old it is. Borobudur is the most important tourist
destination in our country. It’s called the stupa-temple. Stupa is bell-like
building that we can find at Borobudur only. It’s the biggest temple in the
world.
The name of Borobudur derives from the ancient Javanese
language. Boro means the monastery, and budur means the hill. So that , Borobudur means “the monastery in the hill”. Everyday, this temple is visited
by a great many tourists, the local tourists and the foreign tourists. This
temple is surrounded by hills and mountain or volcanoes, mount merapi and mount
semeru. Borobudur has 73 stupas, one of them is the main stupa which lies at
the top of the temple. We can find the statues Buddha inside the stupas.
Borobudur has terraces. We can also find the reliefs on the wall of this
temple. The relief depict the life of Buddha Gautama. Buddha Gautama was the
teacher of Buddhist.