Borobudur

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1. Story
2. A monumental Mahayana Buddhist stupa complex in central Java, built under Shailendra patronage around the late eighth to ninth centuries, and constructed within a few generations and a short distance of major Hindu temple building at Prambanan. Borobudur is evidence for two claims in this Journey at once: that Buddhism travelled the maritime route as far as Java under royal patronage, and that arrival did not mean replacement — Buddhist and Hindu monumental religion were sponsored by neighbouring or overlapping courts, and the resulting forms are recognisably Javanese rather than imported wholesale.
3. Knowledge
4. Religious syncretism at contact points
5. Borobudur
6. Connections
7. Religious syncretism at contact points
8. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
9. Mogao Caves
10. Borobudur
11. Gandhara
12. Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele)
13. Anthropomorphic Buddha images appear in Gandhara and Mathura
14. The Xi'an stele is erected
15. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
16. Evidence
17. Borobudur is a monumental Mahayana Buddhist temple complex in the Kedu Valley of central Java, built in the eighth and ninth centuries under the Syailendra dynasty and inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991 as reference 592. The inscribed property is three temples together — Borobudur, Pawon and Mendut — and it stands in a landscape that also carries major contemporary Hindu temple construction. V55 verification basis: the UNESCO listing was retrieved in summary; whc.unesco.org itself is unreachable from this session, so the nomination file and criteria were not read.