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  • Java Jamboree: Sad Stories on the Walls

    Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 19:08 in java jamboree

    No one in the world except the Javanese perhaps would know about Borobudur if not for Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and no one would catch a glimpse of it too if not for the Dutch-Flemish engraver, Isidore van Kinsbergen, the latter having provided the...

  • Java Jamboree: Stories on the Walls

    Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 21:16 in java jamboree

    Walking up the stairs and corridors to the uppermost floor of Borobudur was a fascinating experience. You'd get to pass approximately 2,670 individual bas reliefs on walls and balastrades, 1,460 of them narrative, telling the life of Buddha and the f...

  • Java Jamboree: Inside Borobudur

    Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 01:29 in java jamboree

    Inside Borobudur isn't really inside Borobudur. There is actually no inner space like that empty space enclosed by walls and roofs of a building that one can walk into. Borobudur is built on a hill, using stones from neighbouring rivers which have be...

  • Java Jamboree: Abodes of the Gods

    Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 06:22 in java jamboree

    If you have seen Borobudur and Prambanan Temple and have lots of time to spare - one extra day perhaps, you could well consider taking a trip out of Jogjakarta. Take a trip out in the early morning and reward yourself with breathtaking views of terr...

  • Java Jamboree: Sad Stories on the Walls

    Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 21:56 in java jamboree

    No one in the world except the Javanese perhaps would know about Borobudur if not for Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and no one would catch a glimpse of it too if not for the Dutch-Flemish engraver, Isidore van Kinsbergen, the latter having provided th...

  • Borobudur! Borobudur!

    Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 01:29 in java jamboree

    Someone just told me that Borobudur is shaped like a mandala which is true if you were to view it from above; it is in fact one giant tantric Buddhist mandala, said to represent the Buddhist cosmology and the nature of mind. My friends and I did not...

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