Borobudur Tample

Borobudur is Buddhist temple name, in Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java. Location of the temple is approximately 100 miles southwest of Semarang and 40miles northwest of Yogyakarta. This temple was founded by the Mahayana Buddhists around the year 800 AD during the reign of the dynasty Syailendra 

Many theories that attempt to explain the name of this temple. One of them states that the name is probably derived from the word Sambharabhudhara, which means “mountain” (bhudara) where the slopes are located terraces. In addition there areseveral other folk etymology. Suppose the word Borobudur derived from the words “the Buddha” is due to shift the sound to Borobudur. Another explanation is that the name comes from two words ”bara” and ”beduhur”. The word bara said to have originated from the word monastery, while there is also another explanation in which the bara comes from Sanskrit which means temple or monastery and beduhurmeaning is “high”, or to remind the Balinese language means ”above”. So the pointis a monastery or dormitory located on high ground.

Based on the inscriptions Kahulunan and Karangtengah, founder of the Borobudurare estimated to Mataram dynasty king Syailendra named Samaratungga, who dothe construction around 824 AD The giant new building can be completed at the time of her daughter, Queen Pramudawardhani. Construction of Borobudur estimatedhalf-century time-consuming. In Karangtengah inscriptions also mentioned about thebestowal of land sima (tax-free land) by Cri Kahulunan (Pramudawardhani) to maintain Kamulan called Bhūmisambhāra. The term itself comes from the wordKamulan first place of origin, which means, to honor the ancestral shrine, probably the ancestor of the dynasty Syailendra. It is estimated that the Bhumi SambhāraBhudhāra in Sanskrit which means ”Mount of the set of ten levels boddhisattwavirtue”, was the original name of Borobudur.