Borobudur located on Borobudur Village, District of Borobudur, Magelang regency, Central Java. Surrounding by beautiful mountain, on the east side of Borobudur is Merapi Mountain and merbabu. Mount Sumbing and and Mount Sindoro on the west coast. And Monoreh mountain on the south side.
Since year 1991, Borobudur listed as one of the world cultural heritage number 592 by UNESCO. It was discovered for the 1st time by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1812 with the poor condition, covered in bushes until in 1814, Sir Cornelius made efforts for uncovering. In 1834 Kedu resident instructed to clean all the whole site of Borobudur. Started from 1907 to 1911 Theodore van Erp conducted the restoration on Borobudur.
The reason why Borobudur is become popular and famous as the world heritage is because Borobudur is the biggest Buddhist temple in the world and used to be 7wonders of the world. Another reason why we have to appreciate Borobudur is because Borobudur represent masterpiece of human creative and also exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town planning or landscape design.
Borobudur also a symbol of awakening, a human's journey to enlightenment, depicted within the story of a young pilgrim named Shidarta Gautama (Buddha) who are search for the spiritual awakening. As son of King, Shidarta lived with alot of wealth and power, but when he leave his palace and find the people live with bad situation in poor condition. Finally he decide to gain the highest enlightenment on the true truth. The story describes the spiritual awakening of every human through the process in life.
To enter the temple, we should begin from the east entrance and continue to circle clockwise with the temple on your right and circle it three times. This is the Buddhist tradition of circumambulating three times could be carried out on every level apart from the ground of the temple.
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| With Ms. Inge and local guide of Borobudur |
