Discover beauty of Indonesia
While traveling with the Master Lin and Grandmaster Tio
Borobudur, the Biggest Buddhist Temple in the Ninth
Century
Borobudur; Ancient Buddhist Temple in Indonesia built during
Srivijaya Buddhist Kingdom where many Buddhist scholar from India,
China and Tibet came to study the Tantrayana/Mahayana Buddhism.
Borobudur has over 1500 relief panels along with 500+ Buddha effigies in
its complex. There are so many people in the world that are dying to go
visiting this temple as one of the World Wonder Heritages. As a place
for Buddhists practitioner, Borobudur temple has the most attractive
architecture as well as function.
This temple was built by King Samaratungga, of Ancient Mataram Kingdom,
the descendant of Sailendra dynasty. According to Kayumwungan
inscription that was found, it was revealed that Borobudur was a place
for praying that was completed to be built on 26 May 824 AD, it took
almost one hundred years to finalize the contruction. The name of
Borobudur, originally came from Sambharabhudhara that means monastery on
the high place.
All relief panels in Borobudur temple reflect Buddha's teachings. For the reason, this temple functions as educating tools.
Atisha, a Famous Buddhist Master who happen to be the founder of the
main Buddhist lineage in Tibet that currently is Dalai Lama's lineage
belong to, came from India in 10th century once visited this temple that
was built 3 centuries before Angkor Wat in Cambodia and 4 centuries
before the Grand Cathedrals in Europe.
Thanks to visiting Borobudur and having supply of Buddha teaching script
from Serlingpa (King of Sriwijaya), Atisha was able to improve Buddha's
teachings after his return to India and he built a religion institution,
Vikramasila Buddhism. Later he became the leader of Vikramasila
monastery and taught Tibetans of practicing Dharma. Six scripts from
Serlingpa were then summarized as the core of the teaching called "The
Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment" or well known as Bodhipathapradipa.
