Sacred Landscape, Stairway to Heaven
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
From the architectural perspective, it is not only the physical arrangement of Borobudur Temple as a building, but also its landscape, that reflects sacredness.
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In the beginning, Java was an island floating on the ocean. The waves tossed it here and there like a piece of cork. To ensure that the unpopulated island remained in its position, a nail was needed to peg it into the earth. And this nail was in the form of a hill…
In Javanese mythology, this nail is believed to be Tidar Hill, located in Magelang. The notion that a mountain is a cosmic center is not uniquely Javanese. Expert in the histor
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