Talk:Borobudur
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I've got a picture showing Borobudur, where you can see the typical form of a Buddhist temple. Unfortunately, it is not that appealing otherwise. Should it be included?
-> http://edderkop/asien/6/03-023.borobudur.jpg (big dl, slow connection)
Regards, Ravn 10:43, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Hindu-Buddhist?
Does anybody know if the "Hindu-Buddhist" qualification is accurate for Borobudur? As far as I know, Borobudur is a Buddhist monument. This qualification propped up from anonymous user 65.0.107.99 who seems to have had a pro-Hindu partisan spree for one day [1]. Might be something to revert. Thank you for any comment.PHG 13:01, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Original Source?
I think that the majority of this article (as of 3rd March 2005) has been lifted from http://members.tripod.com/~angsa/borobudur.html and should therefore be rewritten. Can anyone confirm this? --Bwmodular 13:53, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I agree with you that the source is the same. Don't know who the author is, though, it appears to have been added by 202.65.112.42 on 11 Feb 2005. dlf 05:55, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hmmm; a bit POVish/recidivist (came here from the Anastylosis I just did) - will have a look at some of the other langs articles & see if I can add to this (extensive work (besides looting alluded to here) was done by Dutch at turn of century).Bridesmill 02:44, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Viewed from the air
Borobodur viewed from the air -- I'm just now looking at it using GoogleEarth, from about 5000 ft up -- appears to be surrounded by at least one concentric "circle", about .33 miles / 524 meters in diameter.
Does anyone here know what that circle might be? Is there any sort of evidence on the ground of it? Perhaps it's just a modern fence etc., enclosing the "Borobodur Park" site, although a circle would be an odd shape for such a large fence. Seems to me the circle-choice would be Buddhist, evidence of something older. There must be something there, or the shape would not show up so clearly in the landsat photos. I have visited Borobodur myself, and I've read a bit about it, but I do not remember any mention of this sort of surrounding structure.
There appear to be other structures as well: perhaps another concentric circle further out, at 1.28 miles / 2000 meters diameter, plus various other forms of different shapes and sizes -- the rough resolution on the current GoogleEarth download makes it difficult to tell, but that innermost circle is very cleanly visible.
I can't remember how much "jungle" there was around the site, when I saw it myself in the 1970s and 1980s. I expect that a lot of clearing has occurred since then. The .33 mile circle nevertheless shows up clearly. Cites to any references about any of this, including other landsat photos, would be appreciated.
--Kessler 22:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] rewrite
Just imported a lot of material from the :nl wiki article, as well as a recent scholarly article (Murwanto). the 'Interpretation' section still needs some work, am invoking someone who knows Buddhism better than I to lend a hand (I'm a bit curious that the cited texts have no wiki articles, & aren't mentioned in the Buddhism texts articles).Bridesmill 18:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Re stories of colonials essentially 'abusing' the site, and request for citation - I'll dig, but it will be hard to find refs as this is heavily oral tradition. Given that these are Dutch oral traditions, also mentioned in the nl: article, there is next to no reason to doubt them (Indonesian oral tradition about the Dutch in this sense might be biased, if there was a bias in Dutch oral trad it would be to downplay abuse by their countrymen, rather than remember it).Bridesmill 15:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "scholars"
The paragraph about the possibilities of what was occuring in the 900's, and the collective "scholars" has no citations to back up what the argument was, or what has been challenged, perhaps this is an area of Borobudur"ology" that needs more specific referencing - as an encyc art it reads "wooly" and unhelpful. 139.168.250.208 14:27, 9 June 2006 (UTC) Theat would be the footnote...click on the [1] in that para.Bridesmill 22:42, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Total revamp plan
Such a great monument with good pictures, but badly written with lack of sources. I am going to make a total revamp of this article. — Indon (reply) — 09:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Great - that's long overdue. Look forward to seeing what you come up with.
[edit] Email as source
I saw from the history of this talk page that Merbabu asked about source of the bombing attack from an email. I replaced that source with something else. Actually, I'd like to put the source there, but that will hinder this article to be featured, because an email would be said unreliable source. However, I will keep trying to find the source for the attack. I know that it must be somewhere out there. I wish that Indonesian newspapers have archive. Hey, who do have access to PDAT tempo? That would be great. — Indon (reply) — 09:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Questions from copy edit
- The hidden foot (The reliefs)- is it still hidden or now exposed? --Merbabu 14:23, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- THis bit is not clear to me: The third and fourth galleries are devoted to Sudhana's further wandering about his search; terminated by his attainment of the Highest Wisdom.--Merbabu 14:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Answers:
- Yes it is still hidden. I am going to make a picture of Borobudur's vertical layout. It's clearly seen from there. — Indon (reply) — 08:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- The hidden foot is exposed in the southeast corner [2], since some stones were removed by Japanese occupational forces. (MichaelJLowe 12:49, 6 December 2006 (UTC))
- It's bit confusing, you're right. I've made a copyedit to clarify. Basically, the paragraph only describes what has been written in the table. — Indon (reply) — 08:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nail of Java
Is usually (in kejawen circcles from the 1950's and 1960's) referred to a small hill within the proximity of Magelang - not Bobobudur - anyone know anything further on this issue? SatuSuro 13:31, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Sorry - Gunung Tidar - forgot to mention the name. SatuSuro 13:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- SatuSuro, I might be wrong, because I directly wrote the article from Soekmono (1976) paper. Could you please fix that? I noticed that 2 twin volcanoes (Merbabu & Merapi) are not at the north of Borobudur, so please check. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Indon (talk • contribs) 13:40, 6 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Major addition removed…
I reverted the addition of a large amount of information. It is unsourced, and from an anon, first time IP editor. Here is the diff: [3]. I don’t have the time or the expertise to go through this to check the validity of the information, or to check that it doesn’t repeat what is already written (I suspect is does repeat). I suspect it is a copyright violation too. Even if not, the volume of information in an already large article is probably inappropriate. Perhaps one day we need to create a separate article for the detailed description of the reliefs and their meaning. Indon, or others, what do you think of the edit??? Merbabu 02:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Agree for the removal. The edit is too detail for the article. I suggest to the anon editor to create a new article: "The Story of Borobudur Reliefs" and then we can have a link of "see also" in this article. — Indon (reply) — 10:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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- I would be reluctant to accept a re-posting of the information unless we know what the source is. - and whether such information can be complete for the whole monument/candi/place - it might simply be too long for one article - it might need a number of separate articles if done properly SatuSuro 10:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
