The Miracle of Borobudur temple

Borobudur was the name of a Buddhist temple that was located in Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java. The location of the temple was approximately 100 km on the south-west of Semarang and 40 km on the north-west of Yogyakarta. This temple was established by the followers of the religion Buddhist Mahayana around the 800 's Masehi in the government's period of the Syailendra dynasty.

Many theories that tried to explain the name of this temple. One of them said that this name the possibility came from Sambharabhudhara words, that is meaning that the "mountain" (bhudara) where in his slopes was located terraces. Moreover was gotten by several etymologies of the other people. For example Borobudur words came from the statement "Buddha" that because of the shift in the sound became Borobudur. The other explanation was that this name came from two "ember" words and "beduhur". Ember words were it seems coming from temple words, while having also the other explanation where the ember came from the Sansekerta language that meaning that the temple complex or the monastery and beduhur meaning that is "high", or warned in Balinese that was significant "above". So his intention was a monastery or the barracks that was in the high land.

The historian J.G. de Casparis in his dissertation to get the degree of the doctor in 1950 believed that Borobudur was the place of the worship. Was based on the Karangtengah inscription and Kahulunan, Casparis estimated, the Borobudur founder was the king from the Syailendra dynasty named Samaratungga around 824 of M. Bangunan the giant could be just completed in his daughter's period, Queen Pramudawardhani. The Borobudur development it was estimated took up time semicentenially.

The Borobudur temple have the shape of punden berundak, that consisted of six levels have the shape of lay alongside the cage, three levels have the shape of round coiled and a main stupa as his peak. Moreover was spread in all level-stage him several stupas. Borobudur that had ten stages depicted clearly philosophy mazhab Mahayana. like a book, Borobudur depicted ten Bodhisattva stages that must be passed through to achieve perfection to Buddha. The part foot Borobudur symbolised Kamadhatu, that is the world that still was controlled by kama or the "low desire". This part most were closed by the heap of the stone that it was suspected was made reinforce the construction of the temple. In the part that was closed the structure of this addition was gotten 120 the panel the Kammawibhangga story. Structure of the addition was set aside so as the person could be still seeing relief in this part.

Four floors with the wall berelief above by the experts was named Rupadhatu. His floor have the shape of persegi. Rupadhatu was the world that could have released itself from the desire, but still was tied by the form and the form. This stage symbolised nature between that is, between low and natural nature upper. In this Rupadhatu part Buddhist statues was received to wall holes above ballustrade or selasar. From the fifth floor to his seven walls not berelief. This stage was named Arupadhatu (that meant to take the form of or be not concrete). The floor plan had the shape of the circle. This stage symbolised upper nature, where humankind has been free from all the wishes and the association of the form and the form, but did not yet achieve nirvana. Buddhist statues were placed in the stupa that was closed hollow like in imprisonment. From outside the statues still appeared very vague.

The highest stage that depicted the lack of the shape was demonstrated took the form of the most big and highest stupa. The stupa was depicted plain without holes. In this biggest stupa had been found the Buddhist statue that was imperfect or was mentioned also unfinished Buddha, that disalahsangkakan as the Adibuddha statue, in fact through the research further had not had the statue to the main stupa, the statue that was not finished that was his sculptor's mistake in the time dahulu. according to the statue belief that was wrong in the process of his production indeed to be able to not be damaged. The excavation of archeology that was carried out in the page of this temple found many statues like this. In the past, several Buddhist statues were with 30 stones with relief, two lion statues, several stones had the shape of time, the ladder and the gate was sent to Thai King, Chulalongkorn that visited the Dutch East Indies (currently Indonesia) during 1896 as the gift from the Dutch East Indies government at that point.

Borobudur did not have worship spaces like other temples. Available was long paths that were the crowded road. Paths were restricted the wall surrounded the level temple for the sake of the level. In these paths Buddhist group was estimated did the walking ceremony over the temple to the right. The form of the building without the room and the multi-storey structure this was suspected of being the development from the form punden berundak, that was the form of original architecture from the Indonesian prehistoric period. The Borobudur structure when was seen from above formed the structure of the arena. The Borobudur structure did not use cement completely, but the system interlock that is like Release beams that could adhere without glue.