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It was built between 750 and 850 CE by the Javanese rulers of the Sailendra and Sanjaya dynasties.
Borobudur was designed as a giant mandala, symbolically depicting the path of the bodhisattva from samsara to nirvana, through the story of Sudhana described in the Gandavyuha Sutra, a part of the Avatamsaka Sutra.
The stupa consist of five terraces, the first four of which contain statues of the sambhoga-kaya Buddhas of the four directions (such as AmitabhaKamakura, an image of Amitabha Amitabha the Buddha of Limitless Light (or Life), is the primary deity of the Pure Land school of Buddhism which developed and spread in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan and has grown to become the largest sect in Buddhism. and AksobhyaAksobhya ( Sanskrit, literally "imperturbable"), in the teachings of some schools of Buddhism, is the second dhyanibuddha. In Vajrayana Buddhism, Aksobhya is one of five mystic spiritual counterparts of the historical historical Buddha, Shakyamuni: a prod), from the Mahayana pantheonPantheon ( Greek: , pan "all" + , theon "of the gods"), in one sense, is the set of all the gods of a particular religion or mythology, such as the gods of Hinduism, Greek mythology, Norse mythology. Since the 16th century the word has also been used in a. The fifth terrace exclusively represents the Buddha VairocanaAccording to the Buddhist Trikaya doctrine, Vairocana (also Vairochana or Mahavairocana Chinese: Dari Rulai Japanese: Dainichi Nyorai is a Buddha who is the embodiment of Dharmakaya, and which therefore can be seen as the universal aspect of the historica, who is usually associated with the center.
The fifth terrace is topped by three circular platforms, where 72 small stupas are laid out around one large central stupa.
Throughout the stupa, the walls are decorated with bas-reliefs depicting the life of the Buddha Shakyamuni and Mahayana Sutras.
Borobudur, for centuries, lay hidden under layers of volcanic ash. It was in 1835Events January 1 Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64. 000 dalers January 7 HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago. January 30 Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Cap that the site was cleared. A restoration programme undertaken between 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led and 1984 returned much of the complex to its former glory, and the site has since become a major center of Buddhist pilgrimage.
Borobudur has been listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites.