Yogyakarta – Borobudur Buddhist Temple.
Borobudur Buddhist Temple – The world’s largest Buddhist Temple.
The temple consists of nine stacked platforms, six square and three circular, topped by a central dome.
Main central steps of the temple leading to the central dome.
Buddha statues in niches on walls with narative bas-reliefs.
Wide view of the temple.
Just getting ready to start my climb to the top.
Narrative bas-relief on a wall at the temple.
Perforated stupa.
Steps leading to the central dome of the temple.
Seventy two perforated stupas surround the central dome.
Each of the seventy two perforated stupas contain a Buddha statue.
Closeup of one Buddha statue in a perforated stupa.
View looking through stupas on the temple wall.
Buddha statue with the hand position of Dharmachakra mudra, representing Turning the Wheel of Dharma. This statue is positioned in what would have originally been an enclosed perforated stupa.
Stupas with the backdrop of stunning landscape.
Me in front of two stupas.
One of 32 lion statues at the temple. This one is in the inner corridor.
Steps amidst stupas leading to the centre dome.
The centre dome surrounded by stupas.
One of 2,672 bas-reliefs at the temple.
Stupas, niches and bas-reliefs on a section of the temple structure.
Buddha statue on an intermediate level of the temple.
Statue of a Buddha in a niche on the facade of the temple.
Closeup of a lion bas-relief on a wall at the temple.
Borobudur Buddhist Temple.
The various levels in the temple structure can be seen.
Steps leading to the central dome.
The various levels in the temple structure are separated by stone archways.
Steps leading to the centre dome which is just in view behind a stupa.
This photo shows how the stone in the archways support each other to remain upright.
The stupas at the top of the temple standing out against the clear blue sky.
Borobudur Buddhist Temple.
Me in the grounds of the temple complex with Borobudur Buddhist Temple behind.
Yogyakarta – Prambanan Hindu Temple plus others on the site.
Perwara (guardian) Temple in the Prambanan Temple complex.
Prambanan Temple.
Lion bas-relief on the base of a small temple within Prambanan Temple complex.
Bas-relief depicting two monkeys at the foot of an arborvitae with birds on.
One of three Vahana Temples in the Prambanan Temple complex.
A Vahana Temple.
Bas-relief of a kalpataru tree flanked by a pair of birds.
Bas-relief of a kalpataru tree flanked by a pair of birds.
Temples in the Prambanan Temple complex.
Visitors walking around the base of Candi Garuda (Garuda Temple) and Candi Nandi (Nandi Temple) at the Prambanan Temple complex. Two of the three Vahana Temples.
Steps leading to Candi Hamsa (Hamsa Temple). The third Vahana Temple.
Me in front of temple buildings in the ground of Prambanan Temple complex.
Tourists climbing the steps into Candi Apit.
A three-metre high statue of Shiva Mahadeva (the Supreme God).
Clearer photo of three-metre high statue of Shiva Mahadeva.
Closeup look at a Perwara Temple.
Bas-relief of a meditating Buddha flanked by apsaras (celestial dancers).
View of one of the three Vahana Temple’s.
Closeup of the meditating Buddha bas-relief.
Close up of apsaras bas-relief that flanked one side of the meditating Buddha bas-relief.
Bas-relief of a Buddha with a naga (serpent) at his side.
The Shiva Temple, main shrine at Prambanan Temple complex.
Statue of Hindu God Ganesha.
Statue of Hindu God Ganesha.
Stone lion guardian.
Apsara statues in a niche.
The Shiva Temple.
The Shiva Temple.
The Shiva Temple.
View across Prambanan Temple complex.
View across Prambanan Temple complex.
Candi Lumbung (Lumbung Temple) complex.
Two Perwara (guardian) Temples in Lumbung Temple complex.
Candi Bubrah (Bubrah Temple).
Bubrah Temple is part of the Prambanan Temple complex.
Bubrah Temple seen through the trees.
Candi Sewu (Sewu Temple) is the second largest Buddhist temple complex in Indonesia.
Two giant dwarapala (guardians) at the entrance to Sewu Temple complex.
Sewu Temple complex.
Sewu Temple.
One of two giant dwarapala’s at the entrance to the temple complex.
A Perwara (guardian) Temple in the centre of the photo surrounded by ruins.
A headless Buddha statue amongst the ruins.
Two Perwara Temples at Sewu Temple complex.
In front of what remains of Sewu Temple complex.
