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Candi Borobudur

 

Candi Borobudur, or Borobudur Temple, is a Buddha Temple located in Magelang, approximately 100 km southwest of Semarang, 86 km west of Surakarta, and 40 km northwest of Yogyakarta. Built by the adherence of Mahayana Buddha teachings on the 800 A.D during the governance of Wangsa Syailendra, this temple is the biggest Buddhist temple in the world and has already been acknowledged by UNESCO as a Heritage Site that is indispensable to the world culture as a whole