It consists of a massive heap of stone pressed up against the original bottom story of the designed structure so that it obscures an entire series of reliefs-a few of which have been uncovered in modern times. The bottom plinth, the processional path, was the major afterthought. The convex contour of the whole monument is steepest near the ground, flattening as it reaches the summit. The top three circular terraces are open and unwalled, and the 72 lesser bell-shaped stupas they support are of open stone latticework inside each was a huge stone Buddha figure. All of these terraces are lined with relief sculptures, and the niches contain Buddha figures. Each of the square terraces is enclosed in a high wall with pavilions and niches along the whole perimeter, which prevents the visitor on one level from seeing into any of the other levels.
Borobudur is thus a Buddhist stupa in the Indian sense. There are no internal cell shrines, and the terraces are solid. Running up the centre of each face is a long staircase all four are given equal importance. Above the fifth terrace stands a series of three diminishing circular terraces carrying small stupas, crowned at the centre of the summit by a large circular bell-shaped stupa. The plans of the squares are stepped out twice to a central projection. It now appears as a large square plinth (the processional path) upon which stand five terraces gradually diminishing in size. It was excavated and restored by the Dutch between 19. Built about 800, it probably fell into neglect by c. It seems to have provided a pattern for Hindu temple mountains at Angkor (see above Cambodia and Vietnam), and in its own day it must have been one of the wonders of the Asian world.
It is both a temple and a complete exposition of doctrine, designed as a whole, and completed as it was designed, with only one major afterthought. One of the most impressive monuments ever created by humans. Borobudur is one such monument that one has to experience and understand the meaning of.
The Buddhist cosmology defines 31 planes of consciousness in the ascending structure.Įxperience is the fact or state of having been affected by or gained knowledge through direct observation or participationand includes practical knowledge, skill, or practice derived from direct observation of or participation in events or in a particular activity and meaning on the other hand includes the thing one intends to convey especially by language - implication of a hidden or special significance. Each level of the stupa represents an ascending staget of the Buddhist path to enlightenment and thus also the Path of Return through the levels of multi-dimensional reality. The stupa is essentially a three-dimensional form of the mandala. The vertical form of the stupa rises up out of the mandala as if extruded. The stupa embodies the whole Dharma and, as well, is a part of the Dharma as a holon is both whole and part of the hologram. As stated before, each level along the path marks stations of enlightenment and are associated with specific deities, practices, visualizations and mantras to stimulate the development of wisdom and compassion and other Bodhisattva qualities and eliminate the ignorance and attachments that are the limitations to achieving enlightenment. The space in each of the elements also increases as they proceed from earth to fire as does their molecular structure.
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Thus earth is solid, impervious, water is fluid, transparent, air is gaseous or vapor, fire is plasma, atoms free electrons, space is empty-still, formless. They are in essence states of energy or consciousness as well as states of density. The last being all pervasive and holding the other four together. The ascend from the base/bottom up as earth, water, air fire and space. These are qualities of substance of which reality is made in various combinations. More of the Structure and Perspective of Borobudur The form of the stupa follows from the sequence of the five elements.
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