Borobudur Temple
Borobudur Temple, so that the building was reconstructed and includes a magnificent seven wonders of the world.
Borobudur is a Buddhist temple in the world with 34.5 meters in height and area of 123 x 123 meters. In the building on a hill that is located approximately 40 km southwest of Yogyakarta, 7 km south of Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.
Borobudur was built by Sailendra dynasty between 750 and 842 BC.
Buddhist temple is the most likely abandoned about a century after the center was built by the kingdom at that time he moved to East Java.
Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles in 1814 found fault in Borobudur and ordered that the site is cleaned thoroughly and learn. Borobudur restoration project on a large scale, and from 1905 to 1910 led by Dr. Tb. VAN ERP. With the assistance of UNESCO, the second restoration rescue Borobudur was carried out from August 1913 until 1983.
How much past three hundred years, the temple remains a forest grove which is called by the residents of Borobudur, about Redi. For the first time the name Borobudur known manuscript of the paper Negarakertagama Prapanca Mpu in the year 1365 BC, is mentioned on the monastery in Budur. Then in the Babad Land Jawi (1709-1710) there is news of more funding, a rebel against King Paku Buwono I, caught in the Redi drop in Borobudur and the death penalty. Later in the year 1758, sparked off news about a prince from Yogyakarta, Prince Monconagoro, interested to see the statue of a knight in a narrow cage. Then in 1814, Thomas Stamford Raffles get news of his subordinates on the hill was full of stone-carved stone. Based on the news that sent Raffles Cornelius, an enthusiast of art and history, to clean up that hill. Once cleaned for two months with the help of 200 people, the temple building and restoration clearly resumed in 1825.
In 1834, Resident Kedu clean the temple, stupa and temple 1842 years to be reviewed for further research.
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