History of the establishment of Borobudur Temple

Borobudur Temple is a Buddhist temple, located in the village of Borobudur Magelang district, Central Java, built by King Samaratungga, one of the ancient Mataram kingdoms, descendants of Wangsa Syailendra. Borobudur name is a combination of the words Bara and Budur. Bara from Sanskrit means static temple or monastery. While Budur comes from the word Beduhur which means above, thus Borobudur means Monastery on the hill.

Borobudur temple is believed to be a relic of the Sailendra Dynasty kingdom during the reign of Samaratungga king of the Ancient Mataram Kingdom and was completed in the 8th century. a lot of mystery borobudur temple that has not been revealed, what exactly is the name of the temple Borobudur no inscription or book that explains with certainty development of borobudur, some say the name is derived from the name samara budhara has the meaning of mountains whose slopes are located terrace terrace there is also a saying borobudur comes from the words of buddhas who experienced a shift of one his writing that mentions first borobudur is Thomas Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles in his book entitled the history of Java island. Historians estimate Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles mentions borobudur from the word bore and budur, bore means is the village of a village located near the location where Borobudur temple was found while the budur means ancient

Borobudur was estimated to be built in 750 BC by the syailendra kingdom which at that time embraced Buddhism, the development was very mysterious because humans in the 7th century have not known the high architectural calculations but borobudur built sophisticated architectural calculations, until now none of which can explain how the way of development and history of this Borobudur temple

Already many scientists from all over the world are coming but none of them succeeded in revealing the mystery of the development of Borobudur. One of the first questions that made the curious researchers was where the big stones from Borobudur temple came from and how to arrange them with precision and very neat architecture.

Borobudur temple has 72 magical bell-shaped stupas, the largest Stupa is located at the top of the temple while others surround the stufa down. When scientists draw a borobudur temple scheme, they find strange patterns that lead to the function of borobudur as the sun, the needle is a large shadow of a stupa and falls right in the stupa downstairs but not yet known exactly how the time division is done by using Borobudur temple there is said the clock on the temple of Borobudur shows signs when the time of cultivation or harvest.