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Borobudur temple is the second largest after the Temple Ankor Wat in
Cambodia. Borobudur similar building Cheops pyramid in Egypt Gizeh.
Area of Borobudur 15,129 m2 composed of 55,000 m3 of stone, a
snippet from the 2 million stones. Stone size average 25 cm X 10 cm X
15 cm. Length overall discount stone 500 km to the overall weight of
1.3 million tons of stone. Walls of Borobudur Temple surrounded by
images, or relief, which is a series of stories that terususun panel in
1460. The length of each panel 2 meters. So if the series of relief that
dibentangkan then more or less the whole length of 3 km relief.
Number of levels there are ten, the level of 1-6 square-shaped, while
the level of 7-10 circular shape. That there is a statue in the temple
building of 504 units. Meanwhile, a high temple of the surface soil until
the end of the main stupa was 42 meters, but now live 34.5 meters
after tersambar lightning.
According to the results of an investigation etnolog-Austrian
anthropologist Robert Heine von Geldern, the ancestor of the
Indonesian people are governance culture at the time of Neolithic and
Megalithic originating from South Vietnam and Cambodia. At the time
of the Megalithic ancestor of Indonesia make graves leluhurnya form of
worship as well as a multilevel pyramid building, the small to the top.
One of them is found in Lebak Sibedug Leuwiliang Bogor in West Java.
There are similar buildings in the temple Sukuh near Solo, the
Borobudur Temple. If we see from a distance, look like Borobudur akan
order such building or berundak pyramid and a stupa.
Unlike the giant pyramid in Egypt and Teotihuacan in Mexico Piramida
Borobudur is another version of pyramid building. Borobudur pyramid
form kepunden berundak that will not be found in the region and any
country, including in India. And that was one of the advantages which
the Borobudur is a peculiarity Budhis architecture in Indonesia.
See the grandeur of Borobudur temple and at this time, other temples
in Indonesia has provided a great knowledge of the Indonesian nation.
Various sciences involved in the reconstruction effort Borobudur done
by van Teodhorus ERP. We should appreciate the efforts given the
various constraints and difficulties faced in rebuilding this temple.
Until now there are a few things that still be a mystery surrounding the
Borobudur temple, for example, in the order of the stone, how to carry
stone from the regions of origin to destination, whether the stones are
already in the desired size or shape as the original stone mountain ,
how long the process of cutting the stones to the size you want, how
menaikan stones from the bottom of the page to the top of the temple,
a tool that is used if the crane? Given that at that time there were no
pictures in blue (blue print), and whether the facilities if they want to
negotiate the steps which must be done, in terms of relief images,
whether stones ago that after the image is, or in a plain stone new to
be chiselled drawn. And from which the image be chiselled, from top to
bottom or from bottom to top? And many more mysteries that have not
been revealed in scientific knowledge, especially about finding space
on the main stupa temple.
Restoration in the years 1974-1983
Treasure trove
Resouces