Showing posts with label Gautama Buddha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gautama Buddha. Show all posts
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Borobudur - A Dream in the Heavens
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| A View from the East Entrance |
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| Alighting the First Five Levels |
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| Sultry Beauties |
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| Checking the Photos |
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| Close-up |
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| Some Rest After the Collosal View |
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| Striking a Pose |
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| 72 Stupas at the Sixth and Seventh Level |
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| Another View |
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| One Row of Stupas with Square Openings... |
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| Revealed Buddha in One of the Stupas |
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| The Central Stupa located on a Lotus Pedestal |
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| Rows of Stupas Facing the Mountain Ranges |
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| Timeless Architecture |
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| View of Top Rows of Stupas |
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| Another View |
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| Under the Blue Sky and over 1200 years... |
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| Waiting to Enter the Last Flight of Stairs |
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| Dash of Colours |
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| Contented |
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| View Showing the Central Stupa and smaller stupikas |
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| In the upper oval shaped path |
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| It was unbelievably hot and yet... |
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| Overseeing the mountain ranges over a millennia |
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| Stupas |
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| One more view |
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| Relishing the view |
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| More views |
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| Overseeing the Kedu Plain in Central Java |
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| One of the most fertile lands in the region - situated within two rivers and Mt. Merapi |
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| The Majestic Shape of the Stupikas |
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| The timeless beauty |
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| At right angles |
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| Bas- Relief scultptures in Second Level Balustrade |
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| In Deep Meditiation for more than 1200 years |
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| Kala and Rare Animal Head Sculptures |
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| Water Drainage System - Beautifully Carved |
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| A Collage of Colours |
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| Stories from Jataka Tales in the inner and outer Balustrades |
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| A Majestic View |
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| Waiting... |
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| Buddha in One of the Six Postures - Vara Mudra |
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| Dhyani Mudra |
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| Relief Sculptures |
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| One among the 504 Buddha Statues at the monument |
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| Walking through the Kala - Relieving the Desires and Sins - Step into the final flight |
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| Tired but can afford a smile... |
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| Joins the Father |
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| Part of the Story |
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| One more view |
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| Right Angled turns at every level decorated with bas reliefs |
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| Indonesians, irrespective of their religious affiliation, rever the monument |
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| Stunning work |
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| Intricate Expressions |
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| Wise men concurring |
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| More relief sculptures |
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| More panels |
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| Some more |
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| A sick man being tended |
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| More sculptures |
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| Loving every minute of it |
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| going up |
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| A scene from the Jataka Tale |
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| Nothing Short of a Dream! |
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| Performers in the Borobudur Gardens |
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| Walking towards the Monument |
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| The First View is Truly Stunning - Nothing you have imagined would be adequate... |
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| A view from right angle |
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| A street performer at the campus |
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| At the UN Cultural Heritage Pillar |
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| The Amazing View and the first few flights of stairs |
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