Borobudur is a Buddhist temple located at Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The location of the temple is approximately 100 km south-west of Semarang, 86 miles to the west of Surakarta, and 40 km northwest of Yogyakarta. Stupa temple was founded by the Mahayana Buddhists around the year 800 AD during the early reign of the Sailendra dynasty. Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple or shrine in the world, and one of the largest Buddhist monument in the world.
The monument comprises six square terraces upon which there are three circular courtyard , the walls decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues are original . Borobudur has the most complete collection of Buddhist reliefs in the world and . The main stupa in the middle of the biggest teletak once crowned this building , surrounded by three rows of 72 circular perforated stupas in which there is a statue of Buddha sitting cross-legged in the lotus position perfectly with the mudra ( hand gesture ) Dharmachakra mudra ( turning the wheel of dharma ) .
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