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Borobudur, the great Buddhist stupa on Java (Indonesia), built and decorated perhaps before 800AD, should be on anybody's list of the ten greatest art-complexes in the world for its size, quality, sophistication and excellent state of preservation.

These pages introduce various aspects of this monument, and present it using a web browser. VRML is used to provide preset and self-guided tours of this monument; the collection of 2,672 reliefs, both narrative and decorative, can be accessed; relevant texts are linked to the images where appropriate; and links are provided to other great complexes and Buddhist sites, in order to set Borobudur in context.

Borobudur form part of Project Jigsaw, funded by the ANU's Major Equipment Committee.

  1. Context
  2. Progress with the project;
  3. Borobudur in detail
  4. Borobudur in Photographs
  5. Access the database via clickable sections
  6. Maps, plans, views
  7. Project Jigsaw

1. BOROBUDUR IN ITS CONTEXT

Overview Building History Discovery Restoration
Facts & Figures Buddhism Life of Buddha Buddhist Texts
Buddhist Art Pilgrimage Sites Timeline of Indonesia Monuments of Java
Tourism to Java Indian Monuments Angkor Wat Pagan, Burma
Comparative size Tourism to Java Web Links Bibliography

 

2. BOROBUDUR IN DETAIL AS A 3D VRML MODEL

(NB (a) Works only with a suitable VRML Web browser)
(2) Galleries quartered for viewing: G1.1 is Gallery One, first quarter, and so on

Read This First: How we have prepared the model for VRML Viewing

Then go to VRML Menu

3. BOROBUDUR IN PHOTOGRAPHS

The key-system is taken from Krom & Van Erp's catalogue.
In between the basement at the uppermost stupa terrace, there are four galleries,
each with a main wall and a balustrade:
G = gallery / B = balustrade / main = main wall / dec = decorative
I II III & IV are the main inward-facing walls (i.e. backs to the stupa)
The Balustrade reliefs face these across each gallery (i.e. backs to the countryside);
"a" & "b" indicate two ranks of reliefs on the main wall:
Thus Ia is the upper rank of reliefs on the main wall of Gallery 1;
and IIB are the balustrade reliefs of the second gallery

Basement (O) General Views
G1 main: Life of Buddha (1a) G1 B: (great deeds) (B1b)
G2 main: (Gandawyuha) (II) G2: B (great deeds) (BII)
G3 main: (Maitreya) (III) G3 B: (Maitreya) (BIII)
G3 main: (Maitreya) (III) G3 B: dec (DBIII)
G4: general Buddha Statues
G4 main: Samantabhadra (IV) G4 B: (Maitreya) (BIV)
Stupa terrace Buddha Statues
 

4. BOROBUDUR DATABASE VIA CLICKABLE SECTIONS

First Gallery Second Gallery
Third Gallery Fourth Gallery

5. SECTIONS, MAPS, PLANS, VIEWS

Indonesia Basement AutoCad Model
Central Java Lower Section 2C
Environs of Borobudur Middle section 3C
Comparative size Upper section 4C
Dieng Plateau Terraces 5C
Prambanan Detailed plan 6C
Mendut Site Plan 7C
 

6. PROJECT JIGSAW

1. Description & Rationale 2. Why Borobudur? 3. Accuracy & Detail
4. Web Learning 5. Technology 6. What Next?
7. The Future & VRML 8. Participants 9. Borobudur Credits

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