Theamed Perspective of the Kedu Plain-- BOOK (2025)

THE SECRETS OF BOROBUDUR

THE SECRETS OF BOROBUDUR

The Hindu Temple of Borobudur ?

INAC, 2023

The Hindu Temple of Borobudur

The Ennead (9) of the Kedu Plain

INAC, 2023

The Ennead (9) of the Kedu Plain

Borobudur and Prambanan RELATED

Indo Nordic Authors’ Collective, 2023

Are Borobudur and Prambanan RELATED ?

Material that built Angkor also featuring the Bakong

Indo Nordic Authors' Collective, 2023

Material that built Angkor also featuring the Bakong

The STRUCTURE of the Borobudur as a large base Stupa

2024

The STRUCTURE of the Borobudur as a large base Stupa

What is the difference between Borobudur and Prambanan temple? While Borobudur is a Buddhist temple, Prambanan is a Hindu temple. Furthermore, the temple of Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple in the World and the largest temple in Indonesia, while the temple of Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia. Set in the fertile Prambanan Plain, Prambanan is but one of 30 temples built between c. 750-950 CE in a 30 square km (11.5 square miles) area.

The Pekalongan harbor that brought Hinduism to SE Asia

INAC, 2022

The Pekalongan harbor that brought Hinduism to SE Asia

Corbelling Systems and the Stepped pyramid of Borobudur

Indo Nordic Author's Collective, 2022

Corbelling Systems and the Stepped pyramid of Borobudur

Borobudur Waiting for the Maitreya

Indo Nordic Author’s Collective, 2023

Borobudur Waiting for the Maitreya

The Three mandalas of Bali

Indo Nordic Author's Collective, 2022

The concept of the Three mandalas of Bali which is peculiar to the Balinese Hinduism and animism mix

Hindu beginings of Borobudur Geography, History and MYSTERY Dr Uday Dokras

Indo Nordic Authors’ Collective, 2023

The period in which the Javanese constructed Borobudur is shrouded in legend and mystery. No records pertaining to its construction or purpose exist, and dating the temple is based on artistic comparisons of reliefs and inscriptions found in Indonesia and elsewhere throughout Southeast Asia. Strong cultural and religious influenced arrived in what is now present-day Indonesia from the Indian subcontinent beginning around the 1st century CE. This influence grew rapidly from c. 400 CE onwards. Hindu and Buddhist merchants and traders settled in the region, intermarried with the local population, and facilitated long-distance trading relations between the indigenous Javanese and ancient India. Over the centuries, the Javanese blended the culture and religions of ancient India with their own.

Mysterious motifs at PRAMBANAN -space, time and artist

INAC, 2023

Mysterious motifs at PRAMBANAN Shiva Mandir in Java -space, time and artist

CONSTRUCTION TECH OF INDONESIAN TEMPLES

Indo Nordic Author's Collective, 2022

The CONSTRUCTION TECH OF INDONESIAN TEMPLES

Celestial Mysteries of the Borobodur Temple

Indo Swedish Author's Collective, Stockholm and Nagpur, 2020

Borobudur remains a mystery even today. The largest Buddhist Stupa in the world has many unanswered questions about its existence. How it was built,. what mathematical and astronomical parameters were used to build it and how this colossal structure was constructed. We try to answer as best as possible.

Theravada(? )Buddhist architecture in the locus of Java-Indonesia

INAC, 2022

:There is a paucity of information on Candi or Chaiyas of Indonesia for a variety of reasons 1. No written records or parchments 2. Very few inscriptions 3. Temples in ruins 4. Lack of funding and scholarship 5. Wheter Thervada or Mahayana not certain as flip flop of religions was common. From Hinduism to Buddhism and sometimes back to Buddhism 6. This grey area is therefore a scholar’s paradise since numerous theories can be generated Even though almost all Buddhist sites are mentioned only 1 dozen are discussed in detail because of the lack of information available as well as the limitation of this paper size The word 'candi' (temple) refers to buildings of various shapes and functions, such as a worshipping place, a religious teaching center, a funerary place for keeping ashes of kings, a dwelling place of the divine, a royal bathing place, or a gateway. Although temples once served many functions, they were built mostly to accommodate Buddhism or Hinduism religious activities. The Stupa building traditionThis tradition began to establish itself in Sri Lanka from the 3rd century BCE onwards. It was in Sri Lanka that the Pāli Canon was written down and the school's commentary literature developed. From Sri Lanka, the Theravāda Mahāvihāra tradition subsequently spread to the rest of Southeast Asia. The merchants involved in the Indian trade were predominantly Buddhists and Jains who were able, through their accumulation of wealth, to patronise monasteries and commission artworks and architectural projects. The 1st century B.C.E. witnessed the carving of the railings and toranas at Bharhut, around the Mauryan stupa at Sanchi, as well as the foundation, by the Satavahanas, of the great stupa at Amaravati. Gandhara, it appears, was a cosmopolitan region where merchants from diverse places settled in order to conduct their trade and, unsurprisingly, established their own cultural ideas there. This was the environment for which the Buddhapada stone, now being considered, was made.

PAWON A Home for KUBERA The Powan temple of Yogakarta

iNAC, 2023

PAWON A Home for KUBERA The Powan temple of Yogakarta

Ascent and Withdrawal ---- Buddhist and Hindu temple siblings of Kedu Plain

iNAC, 2023

Central Javanese temples were not built haphazardly. On the contrary: their positions within the landscape and their architectural designs were determined by socio-cultural, religious and economic factors. .The structure of the built space and its possible relations with conceptualized space, shows the influence of imported Indian concepts, as well as their limits. There is a strict correlations between temple distribution, natural surroundings and architectural design. The Prambanan temple which is the largest Hindu temple of ancient Java, had its the first building completed in the mid-9th century. It was likely started by Rakai Pikatan and inaugurated by his successor King Lokapala. Some historians that adhere to dual dynasty theory; suggest that the construction of Prambanan probably was meant as the Hindu Sanjaya Dynasty's answer to the Sailendra Dynasty's Borobudur and Sewu temples nearby. Which means to mark the return of the Hindu Sanjaya Dynasty to power in Central Java after almost a century of Buddhist Sailendra Dynasty domination. Nevertheless, the construction of this massive Hindu temple did signifies a shift of the Mataram court's patronage; from Mahayana Buddhism to Shaivite Hinduism.

Mystery of the TRIAD of the Borobudur

Mystery of the TRIAD of the Borobudur