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Borobudur Temple is a relic of the Ancient Mataram Kingdom and a historical site that became part of the history of the development of Buddhism in Indonesia. Barabudur Temple is located in Borobudur ...

Total amount provided to the property: USD 7,000,000 between 1972 and 1983. Netherlands Funds-In-Trust: USD 35,000, 2008 and 2009. The Borobudur Temple Compounds was inscribed on the World Heritage ...

Hundreds of musical instruments carved on more than 40 temple relief panels suggest that Borobudur was probably one of the world’s music centres in the 8th century under the Syailendra dynasty. A ...

Every year, Buddhists all around the world flock to sacred temples to commemorate Wesak, one of the most important Buddhist festivals marking the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. But did you ...

Dozens of stupas circling the Borobudur Temple, a 9th-century Buddhist temple, in the Indonesian Magelang city of the Central Java province, were covered in gray tarpaulins, to protect them from the ...

Probably build around 800 A.D., this 30-metre-high Buddhist holy place in central Java served as a pilgrim shrine and as a display of magnificence by the kings of the Sailendra dynasty. With its ...

TEMPO.CO, Yogyakarta - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is scheduled to visit Yogyakarta and Borobudur Temple on Friday, June 17, 2022, during his series of state visits to Indonesia on June ...

This famous Buddhist temple, dating from the 8th and 9th centuries, is located in central Java. It was built in three tiers: a pyramidal base with five concentric square terraces, the trunk of a cone ...