Borobudur A Magnificent Cultural Heritage

The Borobudur is located in the sub district of Borobudur, Magelang Regency, Central Java Province its location 269m above sea level and surrounded by several mountains. Borobudur temple has undergone 2 renovations : the first was in 1907 -1911 conducted by Theodorus Van Erp curing The Dutch Colonialism.

Forty one years ago, Condition of Borobudur temple is in Jeopardy of Indonesian goverment with assistance of UNESCO conducted the second renovation started in 1973-1983.

In summary, this renovation work is consisted of :

• Demolition of all parts Rupadhatu, Namely 5 levels of quadrilateral above the temple foot that included 1.000.000 pieces of stones or 29.000 meter cubic.
• Leather Stones cleaning and conservation of almost 170.000 stones or about 6000 meter cubic of stones that were demolished one by one.
• Instalation of 4000 meter cubic reinforced concrete foundation on each level to support the temple, with water ducts in the construction.
• Rearrangement of leather stones which are cleaned of micro organism (moss, mildew and other micro organism) to the original place. 

"Candi Borobudur - Pawon - Mendut" is one of "the best tourist destinations in Yogyakarta", this is not actually the third temple in the area of ​​Yogyakarta, most tourists call these three temples are located in Yogyakarta. Borobudur temple - Pawon - Mendut in Central Java, exactly 60 km north of Yogyakarta is Magelang regency, Yogyakarta is located in Central Java but the "special province of Yogyakarta is one" in Indonesia, because of the presence or the royal palace which is still active today, who led a sultan or a king.

Borobudur temple - Pawon - Mendut built in the 9th century, the third temple is the oldest Buddhist temple in Indonesia.

and even today is still in use in Buddhist religious ceremony in Indonesia, especially in the Buddhist island of Java. Tourists who may or many not be aware if the third temple is in a straight line towards the northeast of the island of Java, and as yet no definite explanation of the archaeologists in Indonesia. You can see it when at the top of Borobudur temple is the third that is in a straight line and if seen from the air or from an aircraft, the third temple in two separate creeks in Magelang, the rivers and streams Progo elo. If you look at the concept of a line oriented in four directions of the compass, north, south, west and east, the third temple is not in line. Actual orientation of the wind is very important because the north - south, west - east, the axis of the universe. Actually, collinear third temple is associated with three stars in the "constellation orion belt" called: "Alnitak - Alnilam - Mintaka". The third star is also skewed towards the northeast a line with the third temple, "Borobudur - pawon - Mendut", where as "Orion" located right above the head.

In Greek and Roman legend that the three stars located in the "belt of Orion", tells of a hunter and the treasures of the archipelago, the three stars is located at the junction between the handle of a plow and plow plow or plow the latitude described as plow fields. Java community uses the latitude plow as a marker of the season. The presence of plow in the east after sunset, showing the arrival of planting season, when seen in the west in the early evening will signify the arrival of the dry season, so it's still a lot of people around the third temple is still using the traditional plow fields with water buffalo and can be seen early morning about 6 o'clock to 10 o'clock in the morning. Collinear third temple "Borobudur - pawon - Mendut" was obtained by projecting the position of "Anitak - Alnilam - Mintaka" down to earth. This is much more effective when compared to building a peg peg as a marker of the location of the temple. Meaning "ancient Javanese society was highly mastered the science of geometry and astronomy and related in the ancient Javanese culture". although there is no strong evidence, the relationship between the third temple "Borobudur - pawon - Mendut" and third-line stars in the belt of Orion "Alnitak - alnilam - Mintaka", at the Borobudur believe anything save a lot of science that can be dug, in addition to saving knowledge of techniques Borobudur building. Believe it or not.? Many do to Borobudur - Pawon - Mendut