Author: John Miksic
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462906990
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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With vivid photography and insightful commentary, this travel pictorial shines a light on the Buddhist art and architecture of Borobudur. The glorious ninth-century Buddhist stupa of Borobudur--the largest Buddhist monument in the world--stands in the midst of the lush Kedu Plain of Central Java in Indonesia, where it is visited annually by over a million people. Borobudur contains more than a thousand exquisitely carved relief panels extending along its many terraces for a total distance of more than a kilometer. These are arranged so as to take the visitor on a spiritual journey to enlightenment, and one ascends the monument past scenes depicting the world of desire, the life story of Buddha, and the heroic deeds of other enlightened beings--finally arriving at the great circular terraces at the top of the structure that symbolize the formless world of pure knowledge and perfection.
Author: John Miksic
Publisher: Periplus Editions
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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A comprehensive guide to the ultimate Buddhist monument of Borobudur, a glorious ninth-century stupa.
Author: Erni Salleh
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 981490113X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize After missing her father’s funeral, Irin Omar finds her orderly librarian life with the Borobudur restoration project turned upside down as she inherits a safe deposit box containing an unknown item as part of her father’s will. Chasing answers across Asia and Europe, her historical knowledge and love for her father persists as she tries to uncover some of the archipelago’s biggest hidden secrets while discovering a few familial skeletons of her own. Reader Reviews: "A well-written, a kind of Southeast Asian Da Vinci Code-type mystery … with a degree of scholarly detail all through the narrative." — Professor Rajeev S. Patke, director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College "The Java Enigma presents itself as a rather singular literary work for its boldness in putting Southeast Asian history at the fore, certainly able to spur new interest in readers that pick this book up." —bakchormeeboy "With so much colourful and eclectic history on Singapore's doorstep, I have often wondered why a code-cracking historical adventure hasn't been written about the region. Finally, The Java Enigma has plugged the gap. With a splash of Dan Brown and a quirky dash of Indiana Jones, Erni Salleh has written a globe-trotting, treasure-hunting thriller that is a fascinating read from start to finish.” —Neil Humphreys, bestselling author of Marina Bay Sins “A riveting read of archaeological and historical mystery. The Java Enigma takes you on a journey across Southeast Asia and into the hidden depths of the monuments, languages and cultures of the Old Malay World—all while unravelling the inherent interconnections in and among them, and in a way, among us all.” —Nuraliah Norasid, award-winning author of The Gatekeeper
Author: R. Soekmono
Publisher: Assen : Van Gorcum ; Paris : The Unesco Press
ISBN:
Category : Borobudur
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find the mysterious gift that will free a small dog from a magic spell.
Author: Frank Joseph
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 1564148424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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In Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America, the author of The Atlantis Encyclopedia turns his sextant towards this hemisphere. Here is a collection of the most controversial articles selected from seventy issues of the infamous Ancient American magazine. They range from the discovery of Roman relics in Arizona and California's Chinese treasure, to Viking rune-stones in Minnesota and Oklahoma and the mysterious religions of ancient Americans.
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Category : Cultural pluralism
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Author: Unesco
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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This publication traces the history and restoration of Chandi Borobudur, a Buddhist temple built over 1,000 years ago on the island of Java, Indonesia which was successfully restored during 1973-1983 and listed as a World Heritage Site in 1991. It covers the various aspects of the process, including the long and painstaking task of logging the position of the stones, the studies that revealed the underlying sources of decay, and the important archaeological finds that provided clues to the temple's spiritual past; and includes many of the original drawings and photographs taken from the restoration project archives.
Author: Louis-Frédéric
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780789201348
Category : Architecture, Buddhist
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Jean-Louis Nou's sensitive and breathtaking photographs establish the monument's setting and impressive scale, capturing the mysterious turns and passageways and inviting the reader to reenact the pilgrim's journey ascending this labyrinthine mandala of stone.
Author: Heidi Dahles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136861114
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Based on anthropological fieldwork in the 1990s, this book provides an ethnographic perspective in its examination of the politics and policies of cultural tourism as they were played out under the Indonesian New Order regime. The successful New Order tourism policy ensured that tourism development both contributed to, and benefited from, increasing economic prosperity and a long stretch of political stability. However, that success has come at a price; the policy to encourage mainly 'high-quality' tourism revolved around carefully constructed and controlled tourist experiences that have led to local inequalities. The failure of this policy is analysed in a detailed case study of the city of Yogyakarta.
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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