Borobudur

Borobudur is a Buddhist Mahayana monument dating from the ninth century. It is a large stone structure built of six square platforms of reducing sizes like the pyramids, topped with three circular platforms and decorated with more than 2,000 carved stone panels and 504 statues of Buddha.

The monument is shrine to Buddha and a place for Buddhist pilgrimage. Pilgrims start at the base of the monument and follow a path leading upwards through a system of stairways and corridors, symbolising the ascension through the three levels of the Buddhist cosmology.

Borobudur was abandoned during the 14th century and was rediscovered in 1814. Since then it has been restored several times. It is now listed as a World Heritage site and is still a place of pilgrimage.