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Borobudur temple in Indonesia


Reports of the discovery of Borobudur Temple was recorded in the year 1814 when Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles, the British Governor General who becomes the guardian of State Indonesia is conducting a visit to Semarang. Raffles obtain information in areas that have been found kedu pictorial composition of the stone. Raffles sent a Dutchman Cornelius to conduct research. Work was continued by the Resident Kedu named Hartman in the year 1835.
Documenting the building and relief in the form of drawings done by Wilsen over four years since 1849. While documenting the form of photographs documents carried by Van Kinsbergen tahun1873.
According to the history of Borobudur temple which has 1460 relie, built by King Smaratungga one of the kings of the ancient kingdom of Mataram dynasty Syailendra VIII century. In Sri Kahulunan inscription (842 AD) Borobudur temple was built to glorify the Mahayana Buddhism. There are several opinions about the naming of the Borobudur Temple. Casparis quoting from the inscription of Sri Kahulunan 842 M the kamulan i bhumisambharabudara which means a collection of sacred building that symbolizes the good of the Bodhisattva. Meanwhile, in his book states Poerbatjaraka Borobudur is in Budur Monastery (Budur = name of a place / village). Soekmono and Stuterheim believes that Borobudur is a monastery on the hill. According to the legend of the Borobudur Temple was built by an architect named Gunadharma, but the truth of the news is not clearly known hirtoris.
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