Borobudur Temple

 

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Borobudur is the biggest Buddhist temple in Indonesia located in Muntilan District, Regency of Magelang, Central Java Province. It is the beautiful and glorious temple which was built in seventh century during the Dynasty of Syailendra. Borobudur temple had attracted since seventeenth century as mentioned in Babad Tanah Jawi. Sir Stanford Raffles (1811-1816) interested stone building of Budur village, and to appoint H.C. Cornelius to clean this building and Th. Van Erp 1907-1911 who intended firstly to conserve the building stone in hill. And big scale conservation in 1973-1983 under the leader of Prof. Ir. Rooseno and Dr. R. Soekmono funded by Indonesia and grant from other countries. Borobudur temple has the form of terrace with big stupa. The temple forms has a series of symmetric building with stupa on the top. Structure of the temple has an accompanying component in the form of small stupa. Every terrace of temple has its specific meaning. Symbolic meaning of Borobudur Temple is on the shape of terrace and its places. This connection with cosmology of Buddha, means that the world divide into three parts, Kamadhatu, Rupadhatu, and Aruphadatu.
Borobudur temple was made in phase, first phase in 780 A.D. for basement of terrace, next phase up to fifth phase. The temple consist of ten stages. The first six are square form and stage 7-10 in form of circle made of stone in amount 2.000.000 pieces with volume about 55.000 m3.

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List of Vocabularies :

Temple: Candi

Built : Terbangun

Borobudur temple : Candi Borobudur

Structure : struktur / bentuk

Stone : Batu

Square : Persegi

Pieces : Potongan /puing

Basement : Dasar

Exercise:

1.      Where is borobudur located...

a.       West java

b.       East java

c.       Central java

d.      Jakarta

2.      Borobudur temple had attracted since...

a.       17th century

b.      16th century

c.       15th centuri

d.      7 century

3.      Who is the Th. Van Erp...

a.       The person who clean the building

b.      The person who intended firstly to conserve the building stone in hill

c.       The person who was found the borobudur at the first time

d.      The person who create the borobudur temple

4.      Borobudur temple was made in phase, When the first phase made?

a.       708 A.D

b.      786 A.D

c.       870 A.D

d.      780 A.D

5.      How many stages of borobudur temple?

a. 11

b. 10

c. 9

d. 8