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There were also triple- and quadruple-hung windows bearing three and four sash that allowed for floor-to-ceiling ventilation, but these were less common. The high volume of visitors ascending the Borobudur's narrow stairs, has caused a severe wear out on the stone of the stairs, eroding the stones surface and made them thinner and smoother. Overall, Borobudur has 2, surfaces of stone stairs, spread over four cardinal directions; including the west side, the east, south and north.

There are around 1, surfaces of them, or about To avoid further wear of stairs' stones, since November , two main sections of Borobudur stairs — the eastern ascending route and northern descending route sides — are covered with wooden structures.

The archaeological excavation into Borobudur during reconstruction suggests that adherents of Hinduism or a pre-Indic faith had already begun to erect a large structure on Borobudur's hill before the site was appropriated by Buddhists.

The foundations are unlike any Hindu or Buddhist shrine structures, and therefore, the initial structure is considered more indigenous Javanese than Hindu or Buddhist. Borobudur is built as a single large stupa and, when viewed from above, takes the form of a giant tantric Buddhist mandala , simultaneously representing the Buddhist cosmology and the nature of mind.

It has nine platforms, of which the lower six are square and the upper three are circular. Each stupa is bell-shaped and pierced by numerous decorative openings. Statues of the Buddha sit inside the pierced enclosures. The design of Borobudur took the form of a step pyramid. Previously, the prehistoric Austronesian megalithic culture in Indonesia had constructed several earth mounds and stone step pyramid structures called punden berundak as discovered in Pangguyangan site near Cisolok [75] and in Cipari near Kuningan.

The monument's three divisions symbolize the three "realms" of Buddhist cosmology, namely Kamadhatu the world of desires , Rupadhatu the world of forms , and finally Arupadhatu the formless world. Ordinary sentient beings live out their lives on the lowest level, the realm of desire. Those who have burnt out all desire for continued existence leave the world of desire and live in the world on the level of form alone: they see forms but are not drawn to them. Finally, full Buddhas go beyond even form and experience reality at its purest, most fundamental level, the formless ocean of nirvana.

The architectural features between the three stages have metaphorical differences. For instance, square and detailed decorations in the Rupadhatu disappear into plain circular platforms in the Arupadhatu to represent how the world of forms—where men are still attached with forms and names—changes into the world of the formless. Congregational worship in Borobudur is performed in a walking pilgrimage. Pilgrims are guided by the system of staircases and corridors ascending to the top platform.

Each platform represents one stage of enlightenment. The path that guides pilgrims was designed to symbolize Buddhist cosmology. In , a hidden structure under the base was accidentally discovered. The remaining reliefs are panels with short inscriptions that apparently provide instructions for the sculptors, illustrating the scenes to be carved.

It was first thought that the real base had to be covered to prevent a disastrous subsidence of the monument into the hill. Approximately 55, cubic metres 72, cu yd of andesite stones were taken from neighbouring stone quarries to build the monument.

Knobs, indentations and dovetails were used to form joints between stones. The roof of stupas, niches and arched gateways were constructed in corbelling method.

Reliefs were created in situ after the building had been completed. The monument is equipped with a good drainage system to cater to the area's high stormwater run-off. To prevent flooding, spouts are installed at each corner, each with a unique carved gargoyle in the shape of a giant or makara. Borobudur differs markedly from the general design of other structures built for this purpose. 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.

Sometimes stupas were built only as devotional symbols of Buddhism. A temple, on the other hand, is used as a house of worship. The meticulous complexity of the monument's design suggests that Borobudur is in fact a temple.

Little is known about Gunadharma , the architect of the complex. The basic unit of measurement used during construction was the tala , defined as the length of a human face from the forehead's hairline to the tip of the chin or the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger when both fingers are stretched at their maximum distance.

A survey conducted in revealed frequent findings of a ratio of around the monument. The architect had used the formula to lay out the precise dimensions of the fractal and self-similar geometry in Borobudur's design. Archeologists have conjectured that the ratio and the tala have calendrical, astronomical and cosmological significance, as is the case with the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The main structure can be divided into three components: base, body, and top. The first terrace is set back 7 metres 23 ft from the edge of the base.

Each subsequent terrace is set back 2 metres 6. The top consists of three circular platforms, with each stage supporting a row of perforated stupas , arranged in concentric circles. There is one main dome at the center, the top of which is the highest point of the monument, 35 metres ft above ground level. Stairways at the center of each of the four sides give access to the top, with a number of arched gates overlooked by 32 lion statues.

The gates are adorned with Kala 's head carved on top of each and Makaras projecting from each side. This Kala-Makara motif is commonly found on the gates of Javanese temples. The main entrance is on the eastern side, the location of the first narrative reliefs.

Stairways on the slopes of the hill also link the monument to the low-lying plain. Borobudur is constructed in such a way that it reveals various levels of terraces, showing intricate architecture that goes from being heavily ornamented with bas-reliefs to being plain in Arupadhatu circular terraces.

These are exquisite, considered to be the most elegant and graceful in the ancient Buddhist world. The bas-reliefs in Borobudur depicted many scenes of daily life in 8th-century ancient Java, from the courtly palace life, hermit in the forest, to those of commoners in the village.

It also depicted temple, marketplace, various flora and fauna, and also native vernacular architecture. People depicted here are the images of king, queen, princes, noblemen, courtier, soldier, servant, commoners, priest and hermit. The reliefs also depicted mythical spiritual beings in Buddhist beliefs such as asuras , gods, bodhisattvas , kinnaras , gandharvas and apsaras. The images depicted on bas-relief often served as reference for historians to research for certain subjects, such as the study of architecture, weaponry, economy, fashion, and also mode of transportation of 8th-century Maritime Southeast Asia.

One of the famous renderings of an 8th-century Southeast Asian double outrigger ship is Borobudur Ship. The Borobudur reliefs also pay close attention to Indian aesthetic discipline, such as pose and gesture that contain certain meanings and aesthetic value.

The reliefs of noblemen, noble women, kings, or divine beings such as apsaras , taras and boddhisattvas are usually portrayed in tribhanga pose, the three-bend pose on neck, hips, and knee, with one leg resting and one upholding the body weight.

This position is considered as the most graceful pose, such as the figure of Surasundari holding a lotus. During Borobudur excavation, archeologists discovered colour pigments of blue, red, green, black, as well as bits of gold foil , and concluded that the monument that we see today — a dark gray mass of volcanic stone , lacking in colour — was probably once coated with varjalepa white plaster and then painted with bright colors, serving perhaps as a beacon of Buddhist teaching.

It is likely that the bas-reliefs of Borobudur was originally quite colourful, before centuries of torrential tropical rainfalls peeled-off the colour pigments. The narrative panels, which tell the story of Sudhana and Manohara, [95] are grouped into 11 series that encircle the monument with a total length of 3, metres 9, ft.

The hidden foot contains the first series with narrative panels, and the remaining 10 series are distributed throughout walls and balustrades in four galleries starting from the eastern entrance stairway to the left. Narrative panels on the wall read from right to left, while those on the balustrade read from left to right. This conforms with pradaksina , the ritual of circumambulation performed by pilgrims who move in a clockwise direction while keeping the sanctuary to their right.

The hidden foot depicts the workings of karmic law. The walls of the first gallery have two superimposed series of reliefs; each consists of panels. The upper part depicts the biography of the Buddha , while the lower part of the wall and also the balustrades in the first and the second galleries tell the story of the Buddha's former lives.

The hidden panels do not form a continuous story, but each panel provides one complete illustration of cause and effect. There are also praiseworthy activities, that include charity and pilgrimage to sanctuaries, and their subsequent rewards. The pains of hell and the pleasure of heaven are also illustrated. There are scenes of daily life, complete with the full panorama of samsara the endless cycle of birth and death.

The encasement base of the Borobudur temple was disassembled to reveal the hidden foot, and the reliefs were photographed by Casijan Chepas in It is these photographs that are displayed in Borobudur Museum Karmawibhangga Museum , located just several hundred meters north of the temple. During the restoration, the foot encasement was reinstalled, covering the Karmawibhangga reliefs.

Today, only the southeast corner of the hidden foot is revealed and visible for visitors. The story starts with the descent of the Buddha from the Tushita heaven and ends with his first sermon in the Deer Park near Benares.

The story is preceded by 27 panels showing various preparations, in the heavens and on the earth, to welcome the final incarnation of the Bodhisattva.

He descended on earth in the shape of white elephants with six tusks , penetrated to Queen Maya's right womb. Queen Maya had a dream of this event, which was interpreted that his son would become either a sovereign or a Buddha. While Queen Maya felt that it was the time to give birth, she went to the Lumbini park outside the Kapilavastu city.

She stood under a plaksa tree, holding one branch with her right hand, and she gave birth to a son, Prince Siddhartha. The story on the panels continues until the prince becomes the Buddha. Jatakas are stories about the Buddha before he was born as Prince Siddhartha.

The future Buddha may appear in them as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant—but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates. The saintly deeds in avadanas are attributed to other legendary persons.

Jatakas and avadanas are treated in one and the same series in the reliefs of Borobudur. The first twenty lower panels in the first gallery on the wall depict the Sudhanakumaravadana, or the saintly deeds of Sudhana. The first upper panels in the same gallery on the balustrades are devoted to the 34 legends of the Jatakamala.

Some jatakas are depicted twice, for example the story of King Sibhi Rama 's forefather. Gandavyuha is the story told in the final chapter of the Avatamsaka Sutra about Sudhana's tireless wandering in search of the Highest Perfect Wisdom.

It covers two galleries third and fourth and also half of the second gallery, comprising in total of panels. The preceding 15 panels form a prologue to the story of the miracles during Buddha's samadhi in the Garden of Jeta at Sravasti. During his search, Sudhana visited no fewer than thirty teachers, but none of them had satisfied him completely. He was then instructed by Manjusri to meet the monk Megasri, where he was given the first doctrine. Each meeting has given Sudhana a specific doctrine, knowledge and wisdom.

These meetings are shown in the third gallery. After the last meeting with Manjusri, Sudhana went to the residence of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra , depicted in the fourth gallery. The entire series of the fourth gallery is devoted to the teaching of Samantabhadra. The narrative panels finally end with Sudhana's achievement of the Supreme Knowledge and the Ultimate Truth. Apart from the story of the Buddhist cosmology carved in stone, Borobudur has many statues of various Buddhas.

The cross-legged statues are seated in a lotus position and distributed on the five square platforms the Rupadhatu level , as well as on the top platform the Arupadhatu level. The Buddha statues are in niches at the Rupadhatu level, arranged in rows on the outer sides of the balustrades, the number of statues decreasing as platforms progressively diminish to the upper level.

The first balustrades have niches, the second , the third 88, the fourth 72 and the fifth In total, there are Buddha statues at the Rupadhatu level. The first circular platform has 32 stupas, the second 24 and the third 16, which adds up to 72 stupas. Since the monument's discovery, heads have been acquired as collector's items, mostly by Western museums. At first glance, all the Buddha statues appear similar, but there is a subtle difference between them in the mudras , or the position of the hands.

There are five groups of mudra : North, East, South, West and Zenith, which represent the five cardinal compass points according to Mahayana. The first four balustrades have the first four mudras : North, East, South and West, of which the Buddha statues that face one compass direction have the corresponding mudra. Buddha statues at the fifth balustrades and inside the 72 stupas on the top platform have the same mudra : Zenith. Each mudra represents one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas ; each has its own symbolism.

Following the order of Pradakshina clockwise circumumbulation starting from the East, the mudras of the Borobudur buddha statues are:. The aesthetic and technical mastery of Borobudur, and also its sheer size, has evoked the sense of grandeur and pride for Indonesians. Just like Angkor Wat for Cambodia, Borobudur has become a powerful symbol for Indonesia — to testify for its past greatness. Indonesia's first President Sukarno made a point of showing the site to foreign dignitaries.

The Suharto regime — realized its important symbolic and economic meanings — diligently embarked on a massive project to restore the monument with the help from UNESCO. Many museums in Indonesia contain a scale model replica of Borobudur. The monument has become almost an icon, grouped with the wayang puppet play and gamelan music into a vague classical Javanese past from which Indonesians are to draw inspiration.

Several archaeological relics taken from Borobudur or its replica have been displayed in some museums in Indonesia and abroad. The rediscovery and reconstruction of Borobudur has been hailed by Indonesian Buddhists as the sign of the Buddhist revival in Indonesia. In , Narada Thera , a missionary monk from Sri Lanka , visited Indonesia for the first time as part of his journey to spread the Dharma in Southeast Asia.

This opportunity was used by a few local Buddhists to revive Buddhism in Indonesia. A bodhi tree planting ceremony was held in Southeastern side of Borobudur on 10 March under the blessing of Narada Thera, and some Upasakas were ordained as monks. It has become the symbol of Central Java, and also Indonesia on a wider scale. Borobudur has become the name of several establishments, such as Borobudur University, Borobudur Hotel in Central Jakarta, and several Indonesian restaurants abroad.

Borobudur has appeared on Rupiah banknotes and stamps and in numbers of books, publications, documentaries and Indonesian tourism promotion materials. The monument has become one of the main tourism attraction in Indonesia , vital for generating local economy in the region surrounding the temple.

The tourism sector of the city of Yogyakarta for example, flourishes partly because of its proximity to Borobudur and Prambanan temples. In her poem Borro Boedoor. Relief panel of a ship at Borobudur. Musicians performing a musical ensemble, probably the early form of gamelan. Tara holding a Chamara. The inscription of Borobudur restoration in by the former Indonesian president Soeharto. The scattered parts of Borobudur Temple at Karmawibhangga Museum. People still can't locate their original positions.

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