In Indonesian, ancient temples are known as candi. The term Candi is also used more loosely to describe any ancient structure. The most famous ancient temple in Indonesia is Borobudur. A ninth-century Buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java. The monument comprises six square platform topped by three circular platforms, and decorated with 2,672 relief panel (1,460 narrative and 1,212 decorative panels) and 504 budha statues.
The narrative panels, which tell the story of Sudhana and Manohara,[45] are grouped into 11 series encircled the monument with the total length of 3,000 meters (9,843 ft). The hidden foot contains the first series with 160 narrative panels and the remaining 10 series are distributed throughout walls and balustrades in four galleries starting from the eastern entrance stairway to the left. Narrative panels on the wall read from right to left, while on the balustrade read from left to right. This conforms with pradaksina, the ritual of circumambulation performed by pilgrims who move in a clockwise direction while keeping the sanctuary to their right.
The hidden foot depicts the workings of karmic law, The law of karma (Karmavibhangga). The walls of the first gallery have two superimposed series of reliefs; each consists of 120 panels. The upper part depicts the biography of the Buddha, while the lower part of the wall and also balustrades in the first and the second galleries tell the story of the Buddha's former lives.[44] The remaining panels are devoted to Sudhana's further wandering about his search, terminated by his attainment of the Perfect Wisdom. (Wikipedia)
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